Required. The parent location where this vpn connection will be created.
Authorization requires the following IAM permission on the specified resource parent:
edgecontainer.vpnConnections.create
Query parameters
Parameters
vpnConnectionId
string
Required. The VPN connection identifier.
requestId
string
A unique identifier for this request. Restricted to 36 ASCII characters. A random UUID is recommended. This request is only idempotent if requestId is provided.
Request body
The request body contains an instance of VpnConnection.
Response body
If successful, the response body contains a newly created instance of Operation.
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