vROPS REST : How do I read out a View of a resource

[Windspirit]

HI all,

accessing REST etc is easily done. But I can not find in the REST docu  (https://developer.vmware.com/apis/vrealize-operations) any point to get VIEWS. 

I like to use vRO to get the data of a view so I can do some fun stuff with it.

Regards

D

[RobertMesropyan]

Hi @Windspirit 
In released vRops 8.10 you can use direct GET​/internal​/views​/{id}​/data​/export to obtain views result, or use existing /api/reports API to generate/download reports with desired view. You can recheck both from https://YourvRopsIP/suite-api

[Windspirit]

Thanks that helps a lot.

Reports...l looked at that. However, the issue was that I vRO can do (ATM..as far as I know) a binary download and the Download Plugin can not (ATM..I asked for it) take Headers (authorization token). So I was looking at running a CMD command on shell instead.

I do hope I can get to the views data as JSON..I will give it a test.

regards

Daniel

[Windspirit]

(something is wrong with the communities...this is the third time I'm typing this)

The URLs given do not work, and neither are they in the Swagger. 

[Windspirit]

OK...so here is a "solution"....its not brilliant but works:

• in vRO controlcenter, enable local execution
• get the AuthKey from vROPS
• write the curl command for downloading into a local file on /var/run/vco
• make file executable 775
• execute file
• get return
• delete temp file

That way you can get a CSV Sting from the report into vRO