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Hello

I would like to use REST API within Prism Central to assign a category to a VM.

I dont know how to do that

Do I need to use this API 

- “Update an existing VM” (put /vms/{uuid})

or this API

- “Create or Update a category value” (put /categories/{name}/{value})


And how can I use it to assign a new category and not remove previous category ?

Regards

Pascal

 

 

 

Ahhh finally I answer to myself :-)

I have to use  “Update an existing VM” (put /vms/{uuid})

and the difficulty for me was to understand what I need to pass for the request payload/body

I need to specify a JSON with the current SPEC of the VM + the metadata with category list

{
  "spec": {
      < every thing of current vm >
  },
  "metadata": {
    "kind": "vm"
    "uuid": <VM UUID>,
    "spec_version": 3,
    "categories_mapping": {
      "ABC1": g
        "abc_1_1"
      ],
      "TEST2": 1
        "test1"
      ]
    },
    "categories": {
      "ABC1": "abc_1_1",
      "TEST2": "test1"
    }
  }
}

 

Not so easy to do but it was ok at the end

Regards

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