Confirmation of instances to bundle or assign

You use the POST operation on the api/sam/swinventory/confirm element to confirm the bundling or assignment of instances.

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Important: Use this REST API only for BigFix products. The REST API returns only instances that are assigned to default license metrics.
Table 1. Operation descriptions
Operation details Description
Operation /api/sam/swinventory/confirm
Purpose Confirms the bundling or assignment of instances.
HTTP method POST
Resource URI https://server_host_name:port_number/api/sam/swinventory/confirm
URL link relation n/a
URI query parameters For a list of applicable query parameters, see: Query parameters.
Request headers
Header
Accept-Language (optional)
Values
en-US (only English is supported)

Used to negotiate the language of the response. If this header is not specified, the content is returned in the server language.
Request payload n/a
Request Content-Type n/a
Response headers
Header
Content-Language
Values
en-US, …

Specifies the language of the response content. If this header is not specified, the content is returned in the server language.
Response payload n/a
Response Content-Type n/a
Normal HTTP response codes
  • 204 – No content
Error HTTP response codes
  • 400 – “Bad Request” if a query parameter contains errors or is missing
  • 401 – “Unauthorized” if the user is not authorized to perform the operation
  • 404 – “Not Found” if a release or instance of the product or version that the user requested does not exist
  • 422 – “Unprocessable Entity” if the request was well-formed but was unable to be followed due to semantic errors

Message body excludes an error message with details.

Query parameters

You can use query parameters to narrow down the results of your search. The following table presents query parameters that you can use for the POST/swinventory/confirm element.
Table 2. Query parameters for confirming instances
Parameter Description Required Value
productInventoryId A list of unique identifiers of instances to be confirmed separated with a comma. At least one identifier must be specified. Yes Numeric
updateTime A list of timestamps of the last modification time of instances expressed in milliseconds. The timestamps are separated with a comma. The first timestamp in the list corresponds to the first instance, and so on. This parameter is used to handle concurrent actions.

Use the GET operation on the swinventory/release/{release_id}/instances element to get the update times.

 Yes Numeric
token A unique user authentication identifier. Yes Alphanumeric

Example HTTP conversation

Request
POST /api/sam/swinventory/confirm?token=7adc3efb175e2bc0f4484bdd2efca54a8fa04623
&productInventoryId=200027,300001&updateTime=1349237658578,1349237658588 HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:9080
Accept-Language: en-US
Response header
HTTP/1.1 204 OK
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Language: en-US