API: VM Status¶

Overview¶

Exercise: Get the status of your VM¶

1. Click + in the main window to create a new tab-window

2. Confirm that GET is selected in the dropdown

3. Enter the URL to get your VM

   • Start with the URL from the previous exercise: https://{{prism_central_ip}}:9440/api/nutanix/v3/vms
   • Append /{{uuid}} to the URL, using the uuid from the metadata section noted in the VM creation response from exercise 2

   

4. Configure basic authentication for this API call

   • Follow the same steps from the previous exercise
   • v3 conforms to HTTP as a stateless protocol such that each API call is authenticated

5. Click Send to submit the v3 API call

   • The intent response contains two important sections:

     • The status exposes the current state of the entity
     • The spec describes the final state desired by the user

   • The state attribute in the status section allows a user to know if the system has transformed the entity from its current state to the final state
   • If the state is PENDING instead of COMPLETE, click Send to get the VM again