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Runecast Analyzer VMware Best Practices new REST API Integration

With the latest release of Runecast Analyzer VMware Best Practices new REST API Integration makes possible more complete integration with the product

As we have covered before, Runcast Analyzer for VMware vSphere is a tremendously powerful product to ensure the health and to automate best practices discovery for your environment. Runecast continues to show they are forward thinking with the inclusion of REST API and API Explorer to consume data from Runecast via API calls. With the latest release of 1.5.6 they have extended the API support in this version. The API endpoints have been increased in this version to 44 which allows for more complete integration with the product. Let’s take a look at Runecast Analyzer VMware Best Practices new REST API Integration.

Runecast Analyzer VMware Best Practices new REST API Integration

The Runecast Analyzer new REST API Integration includes exciting new API features and functionality to interact with the product. As mentioned, the 44 API enpoints allow for many automated features including but not limited to the following:

  • Better integration
  • Advanced queries
  • Filtering
  • Adding/removing vCenter servers
  • Managing licenses

This allows for being able to configure Runecast analyzer without even logging into the UI as an example!

Update Runecast Analyzer to the latest version

The first thing we want to do to make sure we have the latest version of Runecast (1.5.6.0 at the time of this writing). The latest version will have access to all the current API endpoints. ย Let’s quickly walk through the steps to update the Runecast appliance.

If you log into your Runecast Dashboard, under notifications when updates are available, you will see theย Updates are available, please check VAMI interface notification.

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Runecast Analyzer updates available

The VAMI interface is the same port as vCenter VAMIย 5480. ย Login as the admin user. ย Default isย rcadmin/admin

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Login to Runecast VAMI interface

Notice we have an update available. ย Click toย Install Updates.

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Runecast Analyzer check for updates

Clickย OK to install.

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Click OK to install Runecast Analyzer updates

Updates begin installing.

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Updates are installed to Runecast Analyzer

After the updates finish installing, we can see we now have the current version available.

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Version is now updated to 1.5.6.0

Configuring Runecast Analyzer REST API Access

Under theย Settings menu, navigate toย API Access tokens. ย Notice theย Generate API Access token. ย Additionally, notice theย Runecast APIย references link. ย The API Access token is the authentication mechanism to interact with the API interface. ย Click the Generate API access token button.

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Configure Runecast Analyzer API Access tokens

Create an access token Description.

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Create an API Access token Description

As the message displays, the access token will not be shown again, so make sure to copy it and save it to a safe location such as a Keypass file.

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Copy your Runecast Analyzer API Access Token

Theย Runecast API reference link displays the available API endpoints we can interact with. ย As you can see, Runecast has added a healthy number of API categories we can interact with. ย I like how they have built the API explorer into the Dashboard of Runecast, so you don’t have to go looking and searching through API documentation to find the call you want to make and what is available.

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Runecast Analyzer REST API explorer

Interacting with the Runecast REST APIs

I won’t reinvent the wheel here as there are already some really great posts out there explaining how to interact with the Runecast API interface. ย Alen Renouf has a great post showing how to use Postman to make API calls to Runecast. ย The Virtualist also has a great post showing how to deploy the Runecast OVA appliance and perform some initial configuration.

Thoughts

Runecast Analyzer VMware Best Practices new REST API Integration makes a whole new world of possibilities available to interact with Runecast. ย Runecast is a great product that fills a need that frankly no one else is doing and they are killing it with each release, packing in new functionality. ย It will be great to see if their roadmap will include remediation as well as analyzing and recommending. ย Check out Runecast Analyzer here for a free demo.

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Brandon Lee

Brandon Lee is the Senior Writer, Engineer and owner at Virtualizationhowto.com, and a 7-time VMware vExpert, with over two decades of experience in Information Technology. Having worked for numerous Fortune 500 companies as well as in various industries, He has extensive experience in various IT segments and is a strong advocate for open source technologies. Brandon holds many industry certifications, loves the outdoors and spending time with family. Also, he goes through the effort of testing and troubleshooting issues, so you don't have to.

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