Set up your System using the VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle API

Before you can add products, you first set up your system by adding a required password to your locker, adding a data center, and adding a vCenter to the data center. Adding the vCenter requires the locker password.

Prerequisites

Verify that all general prerequisites have been satisfied. See Installing and Importing Products Using VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle APIs.

Procedure

Create a password in a password store.

curl -X POST \
  '$url/lcm/locker/api/v2/passwords' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YWRtaW5AbG9jYWw6VGhpc0lzUGFzc3dvcmQ=' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json'
  -d '{
    "alias": "VC-password",
    "password": "ExampleLockerPassword",
    "passwordDescription": "",
    "principal": "",
    "transactionId": "",
    "userName": "",
}' | jq "."

Create a data center.

curl -X POST \
  '$url/lcm/lcops/api/v2/datacenters' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YWRtaW5AbG9jYWw6VGhpc0lzUGFzc3dvcmQ=' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "dataCenterName": "BLR",
    "primaryLocation": "Bangalore;Karnataka;IN;12.97194;77.59369"
}' | jq "."

Get all data centers.

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

A snippet of the response shows the ID of the data center you created.

  {
    "dataCenterVmid": "ee6ce426-ca13-4e56-ad9e-c34a4d3d90c2",
    "dataCenterName": "BLR",
    "primaryLocation": "Bangalore;Karnataka;IN;12.97194;77.59369"
  },
  {
    "dataCenterVmid": "e76c15f4-0285-4801-ba4c-6032ff63f9f8",
    "dataCenterName": "SingaporeDC",
    "primaryLocation": "Singapore;;SG;1.28967;103.85007"
  }

Assign the VM ID of the data center to a variable name.
```
dataCenterVMid = '<datacenter_VM_ID>'
```

Add a vCenter to the data center.

curl -X POST \
  '$url/lcm/lcops/api/v2/datacenters/$dataCenterVMid/vcenters' \
  -H 'Accept: application/json' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YWRtaW5AbG9jYWw6VGhpc0lzUGFzc3dvcmQ=' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "vCenterName": "VC1",
    "vCenterHost": "lcm-vc2.sqa.local",
    "vcUsername": "[email protected]",
    "vcPassword": "MyExamplePassword",
    "vcUsedAs": "MANAGEMENT"
}' | jq "."

What to do next

You are ready to create an environment and install products in your system. Or if you have already created your environment, you can import products.