Create Profile

Article
08/13/2015

The Create Profile operation creates a new profile for a domain name, owned by the specified subscription.

Request

The Create Profile request is specified as follows. Replace <subscription-id> with the subscription ID.

Method	Request URI
POST	https://management.core.windows.net/<subscription-id>/services/WATM/profiles

You must make sure that the request that is made to the management service is secure. For additional details, see Authenticating Service Management Requests.

URI Parameters

None.

Request Headers

The following table describes the request headers.

Request Header	Description
x-ms-version	Required. Specifies the version of the operation to use for this request. This header should be set to 2011-10-01 or higher. For more information about versioning headers, see Service Management Versioning.

Request Body

The format of the request body is as follows:

<Profile xmlns="https://schemas.microsoft.com/windowsazure">
  <DomainName>domain-name-of-profile</DomainName>
  <Name>name-of-profile</Name>
</Profile>

The following table describes the elements in the request body.

Parameter Name	Description
Domain Name	Specifies the name of the domain that the profile is being created for. A valid DNS name of the form <subdomain name>.trafficmanager.net, conforming to RFC 1123 specification. Total length of the domain name must be less than or equal to 253 characters. The <subdomain name> can contain periods and each label within the subdomain must be less or equal to 63 characters.
Name	Specifies the name of the profile. The name must be composed of letters, numbers, and hyphens. The maximum length of the profile name is 256 characters. Hyphens cannot be the first or last character.

Domain Name

Specifies the name of the domain that the profile is being created for.

A valid DNS name of the form <subdomain name>.trafficmanager.net, conforming to RFC 1123 specification.

Total length of the domain name must be less than or equal to 253 characters. The <subdomain name> can contain periods and each label within the subdomain must be less or equal to 63 characters.

Name

Specifies the name of the profile.

The name must be composed of letters, numbers, and hyphens. The maximum length of the profile name is 256 characters. Hyphens cannot be the first or last character.

Response

The response includes an HTTP status code, a set of response headers, and a response body.

Status Code

A successful operation returns status code 200 (OK). For information about status codes, see Service Management Status and Error Codes.

Response Headers

The response for this operation includes the following headers. The response may also include additional standard HTTP headers. All standard headers conform to the HTTP/1.1 protocol specification.

Response Header	Description
x-ms-request-id	A value that uniquely identifies a request made against the management service.

Response Body