Continuing the further steps in this part:
Generate an Access Token Using Postman
Use Postman to View a List of SDDCs
Update Environmental Variables in Postman
Use Postman to Get Primary Cluster Information
Generate an Access Token Using Postman:
You generate an access token in Postman using the API token that you created in an earlier task.
After you generate an API token, you can use it to interact with VMware Cloud service APIs by exchanging it for an access or authorization token.
In the left pane, expand VMware Cloud on AWS
Select POST Log in
Click the Tests tab
The code that is shown takes the API response and stores the access token as an environment variable.
Click Send
The response from the API request displays.
Click the eye icon at the top-right of the page
An access_token variable is shown.
Click the eye icon again to close this page
Use Postman to View a List of SDDCs:
You run a GET command in Postman to display a list of your SDDCs.
In the left pane, click List SDDCs
The API URL contains a {{org_id}} variable. This API request uses the org_id variable that you defined in the Postman environment.
Point to {{org_id}} to display the value of the variable
Click the Authorization tab
Point to {{access_token}} to display the value of the variable
The value was generated by the POST login API that was used in the previous task.
Click Send
The response from the API request is displayed.
Locate the sddc_id value
Copy and paste the sddc_id value into Notepad
The value should match the sddc id copied from the VMware Cloud API Explorer.
Update Environmental Variables in Postman:
You update the environment variables in Postman to include an SDDC ID variable.
Access the Environment Management window
Click the eye icon in the top-right corner of the page
Click edit
Update the Postman environmental variables
In the Add a new variable text box, enter sddc_id
Click the Current value text box and paste the sddc_id value that you copied in the previous task
Click Update
Click X in the top-right corner of the Manage Environments window
Use Postman to Get Primary Cluster Information:
You run a GET command in Postman to display a list of your clusters.
In the left pane, click Get Primary Cluster
The API URL contains a {{org_id}} variable and {{sddc_id}} variable. This API request uses the variables that you defined in the Postman environment.
Point to {{org_id}} to display the value of the variable
Point to {{sddc_id}} to display the value of the variable
Click Send
The response from the API request is displayed
Locate the hostname value
Verify that the IP address value for the hostname parameter matches the IP address of the ESXi host in your VMware Cloud environment
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