scanInstance_create¶

POST /users/{uid}/scannedinstances

Creates a scanned instance.

A scanned instance is an object representing a live running instance (physical machine, VM, container). Each time the system is scanned, the scan report is stored under the scanned instance object.

Please refer to scannedInstance for a complete list of all the scanned instance attributes.

Security Summary¶

Requires Authentication: true
Entitlements Required: migration_access

URI Parameters¶

uid (required): the user name (login name) of the user

HTTP Request Body Parameters¶

A scannedInstance object

Example Request¶

curl "https://uforge.example.com/api/users/{uid}/scannedinstances" -X POST \
-u USER_LOGIN:PASSWORD -H "Accept: application/xml" --data-binary "@representation.xml"

Example of representation.xml content (the request body):

<ns0:scannedInstance xmlns:ns0="http://www.usharesoft.com/uforge">
        <name>Example Scan</name>
        <distribution>
                <name>CentOS</name>
                <version>6.7</version>
                <arch>x86_64</arch>
        </distribution>
</ns0:scannedInstance>