System settings establish systemwide behaviors and default values.
The SystemSettings element includes all system settings for this vCloud Director server group. The element also includes links that allow you to retrieve these subsidiary elements, which define specific categories of settings.
You can retrieve the entire SystemSettings element to view all of these settings. To update an individual subsection, retrieve it with a GET request, modify it, and update it with a PUT request.
1 | Retrieve the SystemSettings element. GET https://vcloud.example.com/api/admin/extension/settings |
2 | Examine the response to locate the Link elements that you can use to retrieve an individual subsection. |
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4 | (Optional) Modify the retrieved subsection. Subsections that you can modify include a link where rel="edit". |
5 | (Optional) To update the subsection, PUT the modified subsection to the href of the link described in Step 4. |