Create (POST) Connections

Update using the HTTP POST operation.

Code Examples

Request

Request URI Parameters

The POST operation has no parameters.

Request URI Example

Request Headers

For more information about the common request headers used by this operation, see Standard Service Management Automation POST/GET/PUT/DELETE Headers.

Request Body

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:d="https://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices" xmlns:m="https://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/metadata">
  <category term="Orchestrator.ResourceModel.Connection" scheme="https://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/scheme" />
  <id />
  <title />
  <updated>2014-04-06T19:39:42Z</updated>
  <author>
    <name />
  </author>
  <content type="application/xml">
    <m:properties>
      <d:ConnectionID m:type="Edm.Guid">00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000</d:ConnectionID>
      <d:ConnectionTypeID m:type="Edm.Guid">3921d613-e650-46da-bf19-1700c09f2d33</d:ConnectionTypeID>
      <d:CreationTime m:type="Edm.DateTime">0001-01-01T00:00:00</d:CreationTime>
      <d:Description>Test Connection Description</d:Description>
      <d:LastModifiedTime m:type="Edm.DateTime">0001-01-01T00:00:00</d:LastModifiedTime>
      <d:Name>Test Connection Name</d:Name>
      <d:TenantID m:type="Edm.Guid">00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000</d:TenantID>
    </m:properties>
  </content>
</entry>

Response

Response Codes

Response Headers

For more information about the common response headers used by this operation, see Standard Service Management Automation POST/GET/PUT/DELETE Headers.

Response Body

The POST response body.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<entry xml:base="https://sma-server:9090/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000/" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:d="https://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices" xmlns:m="https://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/metadata">
  <id>https://sma-server:9090/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000/Connections(guid'af2990f4-1f47-44c5-9c0f-90c92635c193')</id>
  <category term="Orchestrator.ResourceModel.Connection" scheme="https://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/scheme" />
  <link rel="edit" title="Connection" href="Connections(guid'af2990f4-1f47-44c5-9c0f-90c92635c193')" />
  <link rel="https://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/related/ConnectionFieldValues" type="application/atom+xml;type=feed" title="ConnectionFieldValues" href="Connections(guid'af2990f4-1f47-44c5-9c0f-90c92635c193')/ConnectionFieldValues" />
  <link rel="https://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/related/ConnectionType" type="application/atom+xml;type=entry" title="ConnectionType" href="Connections(guid'af2990f4-1f47-44c5-9c0f-90c92635c193')/ConnectionType" />
  <title />
  <updated>2014-04-06T19:39:43Z</updated>
  <author>
    <name />
  </author>
  <content type="application/xml">
    <m:properties>
      <d:TenantID m:type="Edm.Guid">00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000</d:TenantID>
      <d:ConnectionID m:type="Edm.Guid">af2990f4-1f47-44c5-9c0f-90c92635c193</d:ConnectionID>
      <d:ConnectionTypeID m:type="Edm.Guid">3921d613-e650-46da-bf19-1700c09f2d33</d:ConnectionTypeID>
      <d:Name>Test Connection Name</d:Name>
      <d:Description>Test Connection Description</d:Description>
      <d:CreationTime m:type="Edm.DateTime">0001-01-01T00:00:00</d:CreationTime>
      <d:LastModifiedTime m:type="Edm.DateTime">0001-01-01T00:00:00</d:LastModifiedTime>
    </m:properties>
  </content>
</entry>

Code Examples

The following example creates a new Connection.

namespace CodeSample.Microsoft.SystemCenter.SMA
{
    public class SMASamples
    {
        public static void Main()
        { 
            // Replace this with the name of your SMA web service endpoint.
            string serviceEndPoint = "https://sma-server:9090/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000";                      

            // Setup the connection to SMA
            OrchestratorApi SMAService = new OrchestratorApi(new Uri(serviceEndPoint));

            // Set credentials to the default or to a specific user.
            ((DataServiceContext)SMAService).Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;
            //((DataServiceContext)SMAService).Credentials = new NetworkCredential("user", "pwd", "domain");

            try
            {
                // Identify the connection type for this connection using the ConnectionTypeID value. 
                System.Guid connectionTypeID = new Guid("3921d613-e650-46da-bf19-1700c09f2d33");

                // Create a new connection instance.
                var testConnection = new Connection();
                                
                // Poputlate various properties with values.
                testConnection.Name = "Test Connection Name";
                testConnection.Description = "Test Connection Description";
                testConnection.ConnectionTypeID = connectionTypeID;
                
                // Add the new connection instance to the Connections collection.
                // Note: This action is queued up until the SaveChanges action is called.
                SMAService.AddToConnections(testConnection);

                // Save all pending actions (client -> server communication initiated).
                SMAService.SaveChanges();
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                throw new ApplicationException("An error occurred during execution.", ex);
            }
        }                 
    }
}

See Also

Concepts

Connection
Connections