While troubleshooting a Workload Management deployment, I logged into my NSX-T Manager appliance to see if there were any issues. I immediately noticed several alarms, with a majority of them relating to Password Management. Sure enough, my local accounts all expired. Let’s reset the accounts with REST API! For the purposes of this example, I…
Understanding REST API REST API is also known as Web Services API because behind the scenes, REST API calls are nothing but HTTP requests used to retrieve information from, or making changes to, the cluster. Response Codes In response to an HTTP request, the server (cluster) returns a HTTP response which carries a Response Code….
Postman Powerful HTTP client for testing web services. Makes it easy to test, develop and document APIs by allowing users to quickly put together both simple and complex HTTP requests. Google Chrome app for interacting with HTTP APIs. It presents you with a friendly GUI for constructing requests and reading responses. Offers an add-on package…
After completing the NCP, the NCAP was the next goal on my list. I began to prepare for this in a similar fashion to how I did with the NCP. The first step was of course, to download the Exam Blueprint. As with the NCP guide, a big credit again goes to Steven Poitras, and…
REST API Methods The HTTP verbs comprise a major portion of our “uniform interface” constraint and provide us the action counterpart to the noun-based resource. The primary or most-commonly-used HTTP verbs (or methods, as they are properly called) are POST, GET, PUT, PATCH, and DELETE. These correspond to create, read, update, and delete (or CRUD)…
Prism Central Coming Soon PowerShell cmdlets Sign in to the Nutanix web console. Click the user icon in the upper-right corner of the web console and select Download Cmdlets Installer. After the installer completes downloading, double-click the installer and follow the prompts. The cmdlets are installed and a desktop shortcut NutanixCmdlets is created. Double-click the…
Interfaces HTML5 UI, REST API, CLI, PowerShell CMDlets, etc. Management Policy definition and compliance, service design and status, analytics and monitoring
Engineers are always diligent about patching, especially when it comes to the lab (wink wink). So being the diligent engineer that I am, yesterday afternoon I setup a job in Update Manager to patch all my hosts in my cluster. I stepped away to run an errand, and when I came back my first host…