Need help with your APIs? I offer API discovery, governance & evangelism services. Explore services →
API Evangelist API Evangelist
Discovery
Learnings
Guidance
Toolbox
Alignment
API Evangelist LLC

Nutanix Categories API

Manage categories and category values used for tagging and organizing resources across the Nutanix environment.

Nutanix Categories API is one of 21 APIs that Nutanix publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Categories. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and authentication docs.

This API exposes 5 operations across 2 paths. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 3.1.0.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://{prismCentralIp}:9440/api/nutanix/v3.

5 operations 2 paths 0 schemas 2 DELETE1 GET2 PUT

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.1.0
API Version
3.1.0
Base URL
https://{{prism-central-ip}}:9440/api/nutanix/v3
Authentication
HTTP Basic
Terms of Service
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

Nutanix Categories API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. It accepts HTTP basic authentication (basicAuth). By default, every request must be authenticated.

  • basicAuth — HTTP Basic Authentication using Prism Central username and password credentials.

Paths & Operations 5

Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 5 operations — 2 DELETE, 1 GET, 2 PUT. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Categories 5

Manage categories and category values used for tagging and organizing resources across the Nutanix environment.

GET
/categories/{name}
Nutanix Get a category key
getCategory 1 param → 200401404
PUT
/categories/{name}
Nutanix Create or update a category key
updateCategory 1 param body → 200401
DELETE
/categories/{name}
Nutanix Delete a category key
deleteCategory 1 param → 200401404
PUT
/categories/{name}/{value}
Nutanix Create or update a category value
updateCategoryValue 2 params → 200401
DELETE
/categories/{name}/{value}
Nutanix Delete a category value
deleteCategoryValue 2 params → 200401404

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

nutanix-categories-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs Nutanix publishes across the network.

Nutanix Prism Central API V4
Nutanix Karbon API
Nutanix Database Service API
Nutanix Cloud Clusters API
Nutanix NCM Self-Service API
Nutanix Foundation API
Nutanix Alerts API
Nutanix Clusters API
Nutanix Hosts API
Nutanix Images API
Nutanix Network Security Rules API
Nutanix Projects API