Settings Depots Offline APIs
The Offline service provides operations to manage offline software depots used during ESX lifecycle management.
Operations
POST
Create From Host Depots Offline Async
Extract the current software specification applied to the host and import it into the depot. Returns details about the current software specification applied to the host. 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.
POST
Create Depots Offline Async
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.
DELETE
Delete Depot Offline
The task-based Offline.delete operation removes content of an imported offline depot from vLCM completely. Note: The non task-based Offline.delete operation has been deprecated. It deletes only the record of depot from the list of imported offline software depots, instead of removing the depot's content from vLCM. if you do not have all of the privileges described as follows: - Operation execution requires VcIntegrity.lifecycleSettings.Write.
GET
Get Depot Offline
Gets the information about an imported offline software depot. if you do not have all of the privileges described as follows: - Operation execution requires VcIntegrity.lifecycleSettings.Read.
DELETE
Delete Depot Offline Async
The task-based Offline.delete operation removes content of an imported offline depot from vLCM completely. Note: The non task-based Offline.delete operation has been deprecated. It deletes only the record of depot from the list of imported offline software depots, instead of removing the depot's content from vLCM. if you do not have all of the privileges described as follows: - Operation execution requires VcIntegrity.lifecycleSettings.Write.
GET
List Depots Offline
Returns currently imported offline software depots. if you do not have all of the privileges described as follows: - Operation execution requires VcIntegrity.lifecycleSettings.Read.