Performing Day 2 operations using VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle APIs

After you have successfully installed or imported products, you can use the VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle APIs to perform Day 2 operations.

For the VMware Aria Suite products and versions that you can update, see System Requirements in the VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle product documentation.

Prerequisites for Day 2 Operations

All Day 2 operations include the following common prerequisites:

Verify that you have a MyVMware account. The licenses, certificates, and products that you can update are associated with your MyVMware account.
Note: The MyVMware portal is now at https://customerconnect.vmware.com/.
Verify that the appliance name and fully qualified domain name of the VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle instance are available.
Verify that the URL variable is assigned.
```
url='https://LCM-Hostname'
```

Some tasks also include a prerequisite to obtain your environment ID and product ID. To find the environment ID and assign the environmentId and productId variables, perform the following steps.

List all environment IDs.

curl -X GET \
  '$url/lcm/lcops/api/v2/environments' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YWRtaW5AbG9jYWw6VGhpc0lzUGFzc3dvcmQ=' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
 | jq "."

Examine the response to locate your environment ID as in the following example that includes a product ID for VMware Aria Automation.

...  
  {
    "environmentId": "dc902745-8232-4820-9479-6921edb86cf7",
    "environmentName": "vRS Example Environment",
    ...
    },
    "products": [
      {
        "id": "vra",
        "version": "8.0.1",
        "patchHistory": null,
        "snapshotHistory": null,
        "logHistory": null,
        "clusterVIP": null,
...

Assign variables for the the environment ID variable and product ID.

environmentId = "dc902745-8232-4820-9479-6921edb86cf7"
productId = "vra"

Any additional prerequisites are specified with the individual tasks.