Required. The order to create the hardware group in. Format: projects/{project}/locations/{location}/orders/{order}
Query parameters
Parameters
hardwareGroupId
string
Optional. ID used to uniquely identify the HardwareGroup within its parent scope. This field should contain at most 63 characters and must start with lowercase characters. Only lowercase characters, numbers and - are accepted. The - character cannot be the first or the last one. A system generated ID will be used if the field is not set.
The hardwareGroup.name field in the request will be ignored.
requestId
string
Optional. An optional unique identifier for this request. See AIP-155.
Request body
The request body contains an instance of HardwareGroup.
Response body
If successful, the response body contains a newly created instance of Operation.
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