REST APIs are exposed through the Swagger web page. You can access the Swagger web page to display either the SnapCenter Server or the SnapCenter Plug-in for VMware vSphere REST APIs, as well as to manually issue an API call. Use the SnapCenter Plug-in for VMware vSphere REST APIs to perform operations on VMs and datastores.

The plug-in has different Swagger web pages from the SnapCenter Server Swagger web pages.

Before you begin

For SnapCenter Plug-in for VMware vSphere REST APIs, you must know either the IP address or the host name of the SnapCenter VMware plug-in.

The plug-in only supports REST APIs for the purpose of integrating with third party applications and does not support PowerShell cmdlets or a CLI.

Steps

From a browser, enter the URL to access the plug-in Swagger web page:

https://<SCV_IP>:8144/api/swagger-ui/index.html

Do not use the following characters in the REST API URL: +, . , %, and &.

Example

Access the SnapCenter VMware plug-in REST APIs:

https://<SCV_IP>:8144/api/swagger-ui/index.html
https://OVAhost:8144/api/swagger-ui/index.html

Log in use the vCenter authentication mechanism to generate the token.
Click an API resource type to display the APIs in that resource type.