Managing Support Bundles

You can retrieve information about support bundles and create support bundles.

The following table lists the operations that you can perform to manage support bundles.

Table 1. User Operations

Operation	Description
Get support bundle components	You can retrieve a list of components and manifests included in the support bundle. Manifests specify the files that must be collected for a component as part of the support bundle.
List support bundles	You can retrieve a list of generated support bundles. The list contains details about each support bundle.
Create a support bundle	You can generate a support bundle. Optionally, you can specify the support bundle components and the partition where you want to save the support bundle.

You can run support bundle management operations by using the vSphere Automation SDK or sending an HTTP request. You can use the Components interface to get support bundle components and the SupportBundleFactory class from the com.vmware.appliance.support_bundle package to list and create support bundles. For more information, see the Java API Reference documentation.