Table 1‑1. vRealize Automation REST API Services (Continued)
Service Description
Identity Service Manage tenants, business groups, SSO and custom groups, users, and
identity stores.
IP Address Management Service Allocate and deallocate IP addresses from IP address management
(IPAM) providers.
Licensing Service Retrieve permissions and post serial keys.
Management Service (Reclamation Service) Retrieve work item forms, callbacks, and tasks. Manage endpoint details
including tenant, password, user name, and endpoint URL. Retrieve
performance metrics. Retrieve and cancel reclamation requests.
Network Service Access and manage application network and security settings for
creating and configuring NAT and routed networks; creating load
balancers; and adding and configuring security groups, security tags and
security policies for application components.
Notification Service Configure and send notifications for several types of events such as the
successful completion of a catalog request or a required approval.
Orchestration Gateway Service Provides a gateway to VMware Realize Orchestrator (vRO) for services
running on vRealize Automation. By using the gateway, consumers of the
API can access a vRO instance, and initiate workflows or script actions
without having to deal directly with the vRO APIs.
Extensibility (Plug-in) Service Retrieve, create, update, and delete a resource. Retrieve an extension.
Retrieve license notifications.
Portal Service Retrieve, create, update, and delete a portal resource.
Properties Service Manage custom properties, property groups, and property definitions.
Properties specify items that can be added to blueprints to trigger
vRealize Orchestrator actions.
Reservation Service Retrieve, create, update, and delete a reservation or reservation policy.
Software Services Triggers the execution life cycle of software components using the
software agent, registers software agents, and manages the creation,
modification and deletion of software componentsoftware component
types, software resource requests, and nodes (machines).
vRA Orchestrator Service Manage vRealize Orchestrator actions, tasks, packages, and workflows.
Browse system and plug-in inventories.
Work Item Service Retrieve, create, update, complete, cancel, and delete a work item. Also
retrieve form data, metadata, detail forms, and submission forms from
service providers.
XaaS Service Manages XaaS elements such as forms, endpoints, XaaS blueprints,
tenants, vRealize Orchestrator imports, workflows, and work items.
The advanced designer service selection on the vRealize Automation API
Reference landing page selects the documentation for the XaaS service.
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