When the auto-generate passwords options is selected within the VCF Installer UI, there maybe a scenario where you need to perform troubleshooting and a need to login to one of the underlying component appliances. Of course this is only possible if you know the passwords that were auto-generated, its relatively simple to retrieve the JSON specification used to perform the implementation from the VCF Installer appliance itself.

The following procedure demonstrates how you can retrieve a specific section of the JSON specification.

In this post we will look at the process of authenticating to VCF Operations Fleet Management.

VCF Operations Fleet Management APIs Used

• GET /lcm/health/api/v2/status

Authenticating to VCF Operations Fleet Management Using Curl

Procedure

1. Connect to a Linux based operating system over SSH.

2. Replace the values in the sample code with values for your VCF Operations Fleet Management and run the commands SSH session.

1ariaSuiteLifecycleFqdn=$'flt-fm01.rainpole.io'2ariaSuiteLifecycleUser=$'admin@local'3ariaSuiteLifecyclePass=$'VMw@re1!VMw@re1!'

3. Connect to VCF Operations Fleet Management with the provided credentials and check the health by running the following command:

1curl -k -X GET"https://$ariaSuiteLifecycleFqdn/lcm/health/api/v2/status" -u"$ariaSuiteLifecycleUser:$ariaSuiteLifecyclePass" -H"accept: application/json" -H"Content-Type: application/json"| json_pp

In this post we will look at the process of obtaining an authentication token from VCF Operations for networks which we can then use in subsequent API requests.

VCF Operations for Networks APIs Used

• POST /api/ni/auth/token
• DELETE /api/ni/auth/token
• GET /api/ni/info/version

Obtaining an Authentication Token From VCF Operations for Networks

In this procedure, we will use the/api/ni/auth/token API passing valid credentials to perform the authentication process and obtain an authentication token for the session. Then reading the response from the curl request we will extract thetoken portion placing it into a variable namedTOKEN. Once we have done this we will have a valid authentication token which can be used within future curl requests.