topic Re: NSX-T API - Add a Group with Multiple Tags in VMware NSX Discussions

NSX-T API - Add a Group with Multiple Tags

bmcb555 — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 19:27:42 GMT

Wondering has anyone been able to achieve this? I've built a powershell script that goes and adds a group to NSX with one tag and this works fine below is the structure.

$body = @{

"expression" = @(

"member_type" = "VirtualMachine"

"value" = "test|simple"

"key" = "Tag"

"operator" = "EQUALS"

"resource_type" = "Condition"

}

)

"description" = "Simple"

"display_name" = "Simple"

"_revision" = 0

}

The problem arises when I try and add more than one tag. I can't find anything in the documentation. I've queried against the API to see how the data is structure in NSX and it returns the below (sensitive info removed)

{

"expression": [

{

"expressions": [

{

"member_type": "VirtualMachine",

"key": "Tag",

"operator": "EQUALS",

"scope_operator": "EQUALS",

"value": "test|simple"

{

"conjunction_operator": "AND",

"resource_type": "ConjunctionOperator"

{

"member_type": "VirtualMachine",

"key": "Tag",

"operator": "EQUALS",

"scope_operator": "EQUALS",

"value": "sample|tag

}

I've built queries structured similarly to this request but it seems the it's not a valid expression so wondering how anyone has been able to implement this or if it is at all possible?

Re: NSX-T API - Add a Group with Multiple Tags

bmcb555 — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 20:20:03 GMT

Having read the API documentation in it's fullest, it does not support Conjunction Operator, hopefully be added in the future

Re: NSX-T API - Add a Group with Multiple Tags

vlarocco — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 19:31:05 GMT

I'm not sure if this is exactly what you are trying to do, but I was able to create a new group with two expressions using the NSX-T REST API. I'm using a direct rest call from vRO, but the principle should be the same for PowerCLI

Here is the result of the API Call in NSX-T

Re: NSX-T API - Add a Group with Multiple Tags

EvertAM — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 23:15:54 GMT

It should be possible (the Terraform provider supports it at least).

Make sure you have the syntax completely correct. Based on the output there, you'll need both expression AND expressions in your body.