Using the vRealize Operations Manager API
Until now, you have seen the cmdlets available in PowerCLI for vRealize Operations Manager. These cmdlets only explore a small set of things you can do with vRealize Operations Manager. vRealize Operations Manager has a REpresentational State Transfer Application Programming Interface (REST API) that you can easily use from PowerCLI. The $global:DefaultOMServers variable has an ExtensionData property that opens the gate to the API for you. First, we will create a variable $omApi that contains the connection to the vRealize Operations Manager API, using the following command:
PowerCLI C:\> $omApi = $global:DefaultOMServers[0].ExtensionData
The $global:DefaultOMServers variable can be an array containing ...
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