appliance techpreview services: control

Manage a service with arbitrary command and arguments.

Request:

HTTP request

POST https://{server}/rest/appliance/techpreview/services/control

Request Body Structure:

{
    "args"[
        "string",
        "string"
    ],
    "name""string",
    "timeout"1
}
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<ns0:Control-Input xmlns:ns0="http://vmware.com/appliance/techpreview/services" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <args-array>
    <array-item>string</array-item>
    <array-item>string</array-item>
  </args-array>
  <name>string</name>
  <timeout>1</timeout>
</ns0:Control-Input>

Request Body Parameters:

Name Type Description
bold = required
args string[] Array of arguments.
name string Name of the service.
timeout long Timeout in seconds. Zero (0) means no timeout.

Response:

HTTP Status Code: 200

None

Errors:

HTTP Status Code Type Description
500 error Generic error