Exercise 3 - Perform a Patch Scan

Goal

Perform a patch scan of the machine group you created in Exercise 2.

Requirements

You will need to know the ID of the machine group and the ID of the patch scan template you want to use when performing the scan.

Establish a session credential (see Session Credentials)
To determine the machine group ID, look in the output from Exercise 2

In the sample output in Exercise 2, the machine group ID is 1006.

To determine the IDs of the available patch scan templates, perform the following GET request:

	https://localhost:3121/st/console/api/v1.0/patch/scantemplates

Try it yourself

Perform a patch scan of the machine group named Sample Group by submitting a POST request similar to the following:

Change the machineGroupIds, templateId and runAsCredentialId values as needed.

Postman example

            https://localhost:3121/st/console/api/v1.0/patch/scans
            {
            "machineGroupIds":["1006"], 
            "name":"Scan of Sample Group", 
            "templateId":"4c7069eb-6e1c-4352-91fc-04d4d8abc07b",
            }

PowerShell script example

	$patchScanTemplateId = "4c7069eb-6e1c-4352-91fc-04d4d8abc07b"
	$machineGroupId = "1006"
	$patchScanUrl = "https://localhost:3121/st/console/api/v1.0/patch/scans"
	$patchScanBody =
	@{
	MachineGroupIds = @( $machineGroupId );
	Name = "Scan of Sample Group";
	TemplateId = $patchScanTemplateId;
	} | ConvertTo-Json -Depth 99
	$scan = Invoke-WebRequest -Method Post -Credential $credential -Uri $patchScanUrl -Body $patchScanBody -ContentType "application/json" | ConvertTo-Json -Depth 99

Output

The result is a JSON-formatted response similar to the following:

StatusCode:

Content:

            {
            "id": "8bce9fdd-0cf8-40b0-8ecc-b0914a9c831a",
            "isComplete": false,
            "links": {
            	"self": {
            		"href": "https://device-name.example.com:3121/st/console/api/v1.0/patch/scans/8bce9fdd-0cf8-40b0-8ecc-b0914a9c831a"
            	}
            },
            "name": "Scan of Sample Group",
            "scanType": "Patch",
            "startedOn": "2018-07-17T15:15:10.7892367Z",
            "updatedOn": "2018-07-17T15:15:10.7892367Z",
            "user": "SYSTEM"
            }

Headers:

            {
            [Operation-Location, https://device-name.example.com:3121/st/console/api/v1.0/operations/744206e5-90de-4298-bdb9-98676e2c1974],
             [Content-Length, 353],
             [Content-Type, application/json; charset=utf-8],
             [Date, Mon, 29 Apr 2019 19:26:21 GMT]
            }