Trigger a Remediation

If a remediation report indicates a configuration drift in the vRealize Suite environment, you can use vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager to trigger a remediation.

Prerequisites

Satisfy the following conditions before performing the tasks for this use case.

Use POST /lcm/api/v1/login to log in to vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager.
Verify that you have a valid authentication token that matches your login credentials. See Request an Authentication Token.
Verify that remediation is required. See Retrieve a Remediation Report.

Procedure

Trigger the remediation request.

curl -X POST "https://LCM-HostName/lcm/api/v1/remediation" -H "accept: application/json" -H "x-xenon-auth-token: $token"

The body of the JSON input specifies the product configuration that you want to restore such as, vRealize Automation, vRealize Operations Manager, vRealize Log Insight, or vRealize Business for Cloud. For a remediation to occur, the isRemediationEnabled parameter value must be set to true as in the following input example to remediate a change in the DNS server for vRealize Automation version 7.3.

{
  "updateTime": "2018-06-28T11:09:28.632Z[Etc/UTC]",
  "productType": "vra-7.3.0",
  "productNames": [
    "764b17cc6f57875569146ef4e5a2"
  ],
  "nodes": [
    {
      "type": "vRealize Automation",
      "nodeIdField": "APPLICATION",
      "driftedProducts": [],
      "categories": [
        {
          "categoryType": "Tenant",
          "categoryId": "xxyyzz",
          "isRetry": false,
          "isRemediationEnabled": true,
          "isGroupRemediation": true,
          "driftedProducts": [],
          "property": [
             {
             ...
               "name": "DNS",
               "isRemediationEnabled": true,
               "isRetry": false,
               "values": [
                 {
                   "productName": "TEMPLATE",
                   "value": "10.141.66.213,10.118.183.252"
                 },
                 {
                   "productName": "764b17cc6f57875569146ef4e5a2",
                   "value": "10.118.183.252"
                 }
               ],
               "remediationCandidate": "TEMPLATE",
             },
             ...
          ] 
        }
      ] 
    }
  ]
}

Examine the response to verify whether the operation was successful.