Create Depots Offline Task
Imports a new offline software depot. This will also import the metadata and payloads from this offline depot. The returned task will fail and no offline depot would be created if there are any issues during import. The result of this operation can be queried by calling the cis/tasks/{task-id} where the task-id is the response of this operation.
Request
URLURL
https://{api_host}/api/esx/settings/depots/offline?vmw-task=true
Header Parameters
Header Parameters
string
vmware-api-session-id
Required
Required session ID, obtained by first calling Create Session API
vmware-api-session-id example
b00db39f948d13ea1e59b4d6fce56389
Request Body
Request Body
SettingsDepotsOfflineCreateSpec of mimetype application/json
Required
Specification to import an offline depot.
{
"source_type": "enum"
}
source_type
Required
Type of the source from which offline bundle is obtained.
Possible values are: PULL , PUSH
string
description
Optional
Description of the depot. If unset, the description will be empty.
string
file_id
Optional
File identifier returned by the file upload endpoint after file is uploaded. This field is optional and it is only relevant when the value of Offline.CreateSpec.source-type is PUSH.
string
location
Optional
Location of the depot from which content should be retrieved. This field is optional and it is only relevant when the value of Offline.CreateSpec.source-type is PULL.
Response
Response
Response BodyResponse Body
202 Accepted returns
string of type application/json
An identifier for the task created by this API invocation will be returned. If the non-async version of the operation returns a value, this id can be used with the CIS Get Task operation to fetch that value. The normal description of this operation’s return value will follow if one exists. Identifier of the imported depot as part of result structure.
cURL Command
curl -X POST -H "vmware-api-session-id: b00db39f948d13ea1e59b4d6fce56389" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"description":"string","file_id":"string","location":"string","source_type":"enum"}' https://{api_host}/api/esx/settings/depots/offline?vmw-task=true
Errors
400
com.vmware.vapi.std.errors.invalid_argument : If an invalid Offline.CreateSpec.location is provided. | com.vmware.vapi.std.errors.already_exists : If the depot content already exists. The value of the data field of Error will be a structure that contains existing depot identifier as part of depot field defined in Offline.CreateResult.
500
com.vmware.vapi.std.errors.error : If there is some unknown internal error. The accompanying error message will give more details about the failure.
Availability
Added in 7.0.0
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