Can't create new servers

[scarpellini]

Hi.

I'm able to list catalog items and servers, and show details about them without problems.

But when I try to create a new server (w/ --subtenant-id), I receive following error message:

knife vra server create "5b1881e8-5788-4de1-a25a-a80d7336d7d8" --cpus "2" --memory "2048" --subtenant-id 'COMPANYNAME_81-LQ93UR' --requested-for "eduardo.scarpellini@companyname.com.br" --ssh-password "p4ssw0rd"

ERROR: Vra::Exception::RequestError: Unable to submit request: Could not read JSON: Unable to unmarshal (to type [simple type, class com.vmware.vcac.catalog.domain.rest.OrganizationReference]): Invalid argument. (through reference chain: 
com.vmware.vcac.catalog.domain.request.CatalogItemRequest["organization"]); nested exception is com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonMappingException:  Unable to unmarshal (to type [simple type, class com.vmware.vcac.catalog.domain.rest.OrganizationReference]): 
Invalid argument. (through reference chain: com.vmware.vcac.catalog.domain.request.CatalogItemRequest["organization"]) [acceptableTypes: [application/*+json;charset=UTF-8, application/json;charset=UTF-8]]

Am I doing something wrong?

[adamleff]

@scarpellini The subtenant-id is expected to be the ID of the subtenant/business group, not the name of it. This is usually a string formatted like a UUID (i.e. 4a76bb82-fb04-46d4-9675-98d2a08f44d2)

The error you're getting is coming from the vRA API itself which has a tendency to provide less-than-useful error messages, so it's hard to tell exactly why your request is failing. But I'd bet money it's because of your subtenant ID. You may need to ask your vRA administrator for assistance in getting the ID as regular users cannot access the API endpoint to get the ID of a given subtenant.

~Adam

[scarpellini]

@adamleff

I was using that value as subtenant-id because is what I see on the web-panel.
I'll contact the VMWare administrator to get the right ID.

Thanks so much.

[adamleff]

You're welcome, @scarpellini! I'm going to close out this issue for now, but if you continue to have troubles with this, feel free to reopen with some more details and we'll do our best to help.

[scarpellini]

It works!
Thanks again.

[adamleff]

Great to hear! You're very welcome, and thanks for confirming.

[digitaljedi2]

Why can't we obtain the subtenant-reference via the knife vra catalog list --entitled or knife vra catalog list without asking our Administrator to get the right ID?