vRealize Automation 8.x - Hide Quickstart UI

By default, a vRealize Automation 8.x session log you into the Services page, when you and your users are greeted with the Quickstart banner. The easiest way to remove this is to configure a vSphere Cloud Account, however for some environments, vSphere isn't an endpoint used. In this case, to remove the banner, a simple API call is all that is required. The below code can be run from either the appliance directly, or from your desktop PC using cURL. Another option would be to run the same API calls in Postman.

Create Refresh Token

Create the refresh token by running either of the code blocks below, depending on if you're using a local account or a domain user account.

Local Account - Generate the access token by running the commands below, after updating the url, username and password variables.

 1url='https://vra8.homelab.local'
 2username='configadmin'
 3password='VMware1!'
 4refresh_token=`curl -X POST \
 5  "$url/csp/gateway/am/api/login?access_token" \
 6  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
 7  -H 'Accept: application/json' \
 8  -d '{
 9  "username": "'$username'",
10  "password": "'$password'"
11}' | jq -r .refresh_token`

Domain User Account - Generate the access token by running the commands below, after updating the url, username, password and domain variables.

 1url='https://vra8.homelab.local'
 2username='su_flynga'
 3password='VMware1!'
 4domain='homelab.local'
 5refresh_token=`curl -X POST \
 6  "$url/csp/gateway/am/api/login?access_token" \
 7  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
 8  -H 'Accept: application/json' \
 9  -d '{
10  "username": "'$username'",
11  "password": "'$password'",
12  "domain": "'$domain'"
13}' | jq -r .refresh_token`

Create Access Token

Once you have generated the API token, this is stored in the variable $refresh_token and is used to create an access token. Run the below command to generate your access token.

1access_token=`curl -X POST \
2  "$url/iaas/api/login" \
3  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
4  -H 'Accept: application/json' \
5  -d '{
6  "refreshToken": "'$refresh_token'"
7}' | jq -r .token`

Hide Quickstart Banner

Once you have generated the access token which is now stored in the variable $access_token, run the below command to disable the Quickstart banner.

1curl -k -s -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Authorization: Bearer $access_token" \
2$url/iaas/api/configuration-properties?apiVersion=2021-07-15 -X PATCH \
3-d '{"key":"quickstart.ui.disabled", "value":"true"}'

The output from the above command will show the newly applied setting.

{"key":"quickstart.ui.disabled","value":"true"}

Once this has run, the Quickstart banner will not be shown for any new sessions. There is no need to restart the server or any services / pods.

Note: If you upgrade or patch vRealize Automation, the changes may be lost and need to be completed again.