Get Acq Specs
Returns information about a specific acquisition specification. Warning: This operation is available as Technology Preview. These are early access APIs provided to test, automate and provide feedback on the feature. Since this can change based on feedback, VMware does not guarantee backwards compatibility and recommends against using them in production environments. Some Technology Preview APIs might only be applicable to specific environments.
Request
URLURL
https://{api_host}/api/stats/acq-specs/{id}
Path Parameters
Path Parameters
string
id
Required
Acquisition specification ID. The parameter must be an identifier for the resource type: com.vmware.vstats.model.AcqSpec.
Header Parameters
Header Parameters
string
vmware-api-session-id
Required
Required session ID, acquired from Create Session API under CIS product
vmware-api-session-id example
"b00db39f948d13ea1e59b4d6fce56389"
Authentication
This operation uses the following authentication methods.
Response
Response
Response BodyResponse Body
200 OK returns
AcqSpecsInfo of type application/json
Information about the desired acquisition specification.
{
"counters": {
"cid_mid": {
"cid": "string",
"mid": "string"
},
"set_id": "string"
},
"expiration": 0,
"id": "string",
"interval": 0,
"memo_": "string",
"resources": [
{
"id_value": "string",
"key": "string",
"predicate": "EQUAL",
"scheme": "string",
"type": "string"
}
],
"status": "ENABLED"
}
counters
Required
Designates the counter(s) to be sampled. Warning: This attribute is available as Technology Preview. These are early access APIs provided to test, automate and provide feedback on the feature. Since this can change based on feedback, VMware does not guarantee backwards compatibility and recommends against using them in production environments. Some Technology Preview APIs might only be applicable to specific environments.
string
id
Required
Acquisition specification identifier. Warning: This attribute is available as Technology Preview. These are early access APIs provided to test, automate and provide feedback on the feature. Since this can change based on feedback, VMware does not guarantee backwards compatibility and recommends against using them in production environments. Some Technology Preview APIs might only be applicable to specific environments. When clients pass a value of this structure as a parameter, the field must be an identifier for the resource type: com.vmware.vstats.model.AcqSpec. When operations return a value of this structure as a result, the field will be an identifier for the resource type: com.vmware.vstats.model.AcqSpec.
string
memo_
Required
Consumer provided text about this Acquisition Specification. Warning: This attribute is available as Technology Preview. These are early access APIs provided to test, automate and provide feedback on the feature. Since this can change based on feedback, VMware does not guarantee backwards compatibility and recommends against using them in production environments. Some Technology Preview APIs might only be applicable to specific environments.
array of
RsrcId
resources
Required
A set of resource identifiers representing a single resource to be monitored. Warning: This attribute is available as Technology Preview. These are early access APIs provided to test, automate and provide feedback on the feature. Since this can change based on feedback, VMware does not guarantee backwards compatibility and recommends against using them in production environments. Some Technology Preview APIs might only be applicable to specific environments.
status
Required
Describes the status of an Acquisition Specification. Warning: This enumeration is available as Technology Preview. These are early access APIs provided to test, automate and provide feedback on the feature. Since this can change based on feedback, VMware does not guarantee backwards compatibility and recommends against using them in production environments. Some Technology Preview APIs might only be applicable to specific environments.
ENABLED : The acquisition specification is enabled when the stats data collection is going on. Warning: This constant is available as Technology Preview. These are early access APIs provided to test, automate and provide feedback on the feature. Since this can change based on feedback, VMware does not guarantee backwards compatibility and recommends against using them in production environments. Some Technology Preview APIs might only be applicable to specific environments.
DISABLED : The acquisition specification is disabled when the stats data collection is paused. This can happen when the counters are enabled or disabled dynamically on providers. Warning: This constant is available as Technology Preview. These are early access APIs provided to test, automate and provide feedback on the feature. Since this can change based on feedback, VMware does not guarantee backwards compatibility and recommends against using them in production environments. Some Technology Preview APIs might only be applicable to specific environments.
EXPIRED : The acquisition specification is expired when the expiration time is exceeded. There is no data collection in that case. Warning: This constant is available as Technology Preview. These are early access APIs provided to test, automate and provide feedback on the feature. Since this can change based on feedback, VMware does not guarantee backwards compatibility and recommends against using them in production environments. Some Technology Preview APIs might only be applicable to specific environments.
Possible values are: ENABLED , DISABLED , EXPIRED
integer
expiration
Optional
Expiration time for this acquisition specification represented as Unix UTC number of seconds (since epoch). Warning: This attribute is available as Technology Preview. These are early access APIs provided to test, automate and provide feedback on the feature. Since this can change based on feedback, VMware does not guarantee backwards compatibility and recommends against using them in production environments. Some Technology Preview APIs might only be applicable to specific environments. When this field is unset or 0, default expiration duration is 100 minutes.
integer
interval
Optional
Desired sampling rate in seconds. Warning: This attribute is available as Technology Preview. These are early access APIs provided to test, automate and provide feedback on the feature. Since this can change based on feedback, VMware does not guarantee backwards compatibility and recommends against using them in production environments. Some Technology Preview APIs might only be applicable to specific environments. When this field is unset, default interval is 10 seconds.
Errors
403
com.vmware.vapi.std.errors.unauthorized : if the user does not have sufficient privileges.
500
com.vmware.vapi.std.errors.error : if the system reports an error while responding to the request.
default
‘Default’ means this response is used for all HTTP codes that are not covered individually for this operation.
Code Samples
PowerCLI Client SDK Example
Invoke-GetIdStatsAcqSpecs -Id "MyId"
cURL Command
curl -H "vmware-api-session-id: b00db39f948d13ea1e59b4d6fce56389" https://{api_host}/api/stats/acq-specs/{id}
Vendor Extensions
This operation contains the following vendor extensions defined in the spec:
x-vmw-doc-operation: get
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