How Do I Retrieve a List of Support Bundle Files

You can use the VMware Cloud Director service API to retrieve a list of the files in a support bundle that you created for a specific VMware Cloud Director instance.

Prerequisites

Obtain an API token from the organization you want to manage and exchange it for an access bearer token. Use the bearer token in the Authorization header when you run API calls. See How Do I Generate an API Token.
Obtain the environment ID (URN). See How Do I Retrieve the List of Environments in My Organization.
Create a support bundle. See How Do I Generate and Download a Support Bundle.

Procedure

Run a GET request to retrieve the ID (URN) of the task that resulted in the creation of a support bundle.
```
GET https://operatorUrl/environment/environmentUrn/organization/organizationUrn/tasks?filter=name==createSupportBundle
```
Run a GET request to retrieve the files of the support bundle that you created.
```
GET https://operatorUrl/environment/environmentUrn/tasks/taskUrn/files
```

Results

The response returns information about the support bundle files.

Example: Retrieve a List of Support Bundle Files

This example retrieves the IDs (URNs) of the tasks that resulted in the creation of support bundles and then retrieves information about the files generated by a specific task.

Run a GET request to retrieve the IDs (URNs) of the tasks that resulted in the creation of support bundles.

GET https://vcdc-operator-prod-us-west-2.vdp.vmware.com/environments/urn:vcdc:environment:00000000-0000-0000-0000-00000000000/organization/urn:vcdc:organization:11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111/tasks?filter=name==createSupportBundle

Use the bearer token in the Authorization header of the request.

Authorization: 
Bearer eyJh…I1NiIs

The response returns information about all tasks in your organization that resulted in the creation of support bundle.

Run a GET request to retrieve information about the files generated by a specific task.

GET https://vcdc-operator-prod-us-west-2.vdp.vmware.com/environment/urn:vcdc:environment:00000000-0000-0000-0000-00000000000/tasks/urn:vcdc:task:11111111-1111-1111-1111-11111111111/files

The response returns information about the support bundle files created by the task.

[
  {
    "id": "urn:vcdc:clusterFile:111111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111",
    "name": "support-bundle-vcd-22222222-2222-2222-2222-222222222222-2.tgz",
    "description": "Generated support bundle for vcd-22222222-2222-2222-2222-222222222222-2",
    "type": "SUPPORT_BUNDLE",
    "timestamp": "2020-11-11T06:21:29.913995Z"
  },
  {
    "id": "urn:vcdc:clusterFile:33333333-3333-3333-3333-333333333333",
    "name": "support-bundle-vcd-44444444-4444-4444-4444-44444444444-4.tgz",
    "description": "Generated support bundle for vcd-44444444-4444-4444-4444-44444444444-4",
    "type": "SUPPORT_BUNDLE",
    "timestamp": "2020-11-11T06:21:29.787532Z"
  }
]