Host Patch Manager Check Host Patch Task

Deprecated as of vSphere 8.0u3, and there is no replacement available.

Check the list of metadata and returns the dependency, obsolete and conflict information The operation is cancelable through the returned Task object.

No integrity checks are performed on the metadata.

Required privileges: System.Read

Request

URI

POST

https://{vcenter-host}/sdk/vim25/{release}/HostPatchManager/{moId}/CheckHostPatch_Task

COPY

Path Parameters

string

moId

Required

The unique identifier for the managed object to which the method attaches; the serialized managed object reference for a request has the form moType/moId, in this case HostPatchManager/{moId}.

string

release

Required

The vSphere release schema. The current specification covers vSphere 8.0.3.0 APIs.

Request Body

CheckHostPatchRequestType of type(s) application/json

Required

{
    "metaUrls": [
        "string"
    ],
    "bundleUrls": [
        "string"
    ],
    "spec": {
        "_typeName": "string",
        "proxy": "string",
        "port": 0,
        "userName": "string",
        "password": "string",
        "cmdOption": "string"
    }
}

array of string

metaUrls

Optional

a list of urls pointing to metadata.zip.

array of string

bundleUrls

Optional

a list of urls pointing to an "offline" bundle. It is not supported in 5.0 or later.

HostPatchManagerPatchManagerOperationSpec

spec

Optional

Optional parameters for hostd to pass to exupdate.

Authentication

This operation uses the following authentication methods.

Session

Responses

200

This method returns a Task object with which to monitor the operation. The info.result property in the Task contains the HostPatchManagerStatus upon success.

Returns MoRefTask of type(s) application/json

This response body class contains all of the following: MoRefExtensibleManagedObject

{
    "_typeName": "string",
    "type": "string",
    "value": "string"
}

500

RequestCanceled: if the operation is canceled.

InvalidState: if the feature cannot be supported on the platform, potentially because the hardware configuration does not support it.

TaskInProgress: if there is already a patch installation in progress.

PlatformConfigFault: if any error occurs during the operation. More detailed information will be returned within the payload of the exception as xml string.

Returns MethodFault of type(s) application/json

This response body class contains all of the following: Any

{
    "_typeName": "string",
    "faultCause": "MethodFault Object",
    "faultMessage": [
        {
            "_typeName": "string",
            "key": "string",
            "arg": [
                {
                    "_typeName": "string",
                    "key": "string",
                    "value": {
                        "_typeName": "string"
                    }
                }
            ],
            "message": "string"
        }
    ]
}

MethodFault

faultCause

Optional

The base data object type for all the object model faults that an application might handle.

array of LocalizableMessage

faultMessage

Optional

Message which has details about the error Message can also contain a key to message catalog which can be used to generate better localized messages.

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