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  Add Cloud Account in Aria Automation using API Since I am deploying new releases of Aria Automation often, I wanted to automate the configuration as much as possible with the tool of my choice Powershell. One of the first things you want to configure after you have deployed Aria Automation is a Cloud Account and a Cloud Zone; in my case a vSphere Cloud Account. From the API Documenation and Swagger UI, you can see that there are 2 API’s to create a Cloud Account: /iaas/api/cloud-accounts /iaas/api/cloud-account-vsphere I chose to use the /iaas/api/cloud-account-vsphere API. It turned out to be quite challenging sometimes  which mostly had to do with finding the correct Id’s and notation in the JSON data. In vCenter I have a Datacenter object called “dc-mgmt” with two clusters “cls-mgmt” and “cls-work”. My goal is to automate the creation of a Cloud Account with a Cloud Zone including only the cls-mgmt Cluster. The script starts with defining the variables: #vCenter (to add t...