A system administrator can retrieve a list of all pending and active blocking tasks. Links in the returned BlockingTask element allow the administrator to take action on the request.
In addition to being subject to programmatic action by an AMQP client (see Notification Message Format), blocking tasks can be monitored and managed by a system administrator using the vCloud API.
1 | Retrieve the list of blocking tasks. See the request portion of Example: Retrieve a List of Blocking Tasks. If the BlockingTaskReferences element contains no Reference elements, no blocking tasks are currently active in the system. |
2 | Retrieve an individual blocking task from one of the Reference elements in the response. See the request portion of Example: Handling a Blocking Task. |
3 | Use one of the action links in the BlockingTask to take action on the task. See the response portion of Example: Handling a Blocking Task. |
GET https://vcloud.example.com/api/admin/extension/blockingTasks/
200 OK Content-Type: application/vnd.vmware.admin.blockingTaskList+xml ... <vmext:BlockingTaskReferences xmlns:vmext="http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/extension/v1.5" xmlns:vcloud="http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/v1.5" ... > <vcloud:Link rel="up" type="application/vnd.vmware.admin.vmwExtension+xml" href="https://vcloud.example.com/api/admin/extension" /> <vcloud:Reference type="application/vnd.vmware.admin.blockingTask+xml" name="vdcUpdateTemplate" href="https://vcloud.example.com/api/admin/extension/blockingTask/28" /> <vcloud:Reference type="application/vnd.vmware.admin.blockingTask+xml" name="vdcComposeVapp" href="https://vcloud.example.com/api/admin/extension/blockingTask/25" /> <vcloud:Reference type="application/vnd.vmware.admin.blockingTask+xml" name="vdcUploadMedia" href="https://vcloud.example.com/api/admin/extension/blockingTask/12" /> </vmext:BlockingTaskReferences>