Mastering PowerCLI

Managing machines

Now, we will look at ways to manage the machines in a tenant. For this, we will start by checking a list of all available catalog items.

Listing shared and private catalog items

To get a list of catalog items, first build the header:

$headers = New-Object "System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary[[String],[String]]"
$headers.Add('Content-Type', 'application/json')
$headers.Add('Authorization', "Bearer $token")

Next, simply query the resources:

PS C:\> (Invoke-RestMethod -Method Get -Uri 
"https://vra.lab.com/catalog-
service/api/consumer/entitledCatalogItems" -Headers 
$headers).Content.catalogItem[0] | ConvertTo-Json

We get a list of items. For readability and easy understanding, we will select only one output. Since the output is ...