Example of Accessing the API with cURL

The following example shows how to change which OS partition will be active on next reboot by submitting a POST request on the REST resource using cURL. If the request requires a timestamp, use the timestamp from the response of the /login API. For more information about cURL, see Use cURL.

curl -X POST \
    -b cookies.txt \
    -d@request.json \
    --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
    "https://$IPADDR/restapi/os_partition/change_partition"

The following shows an example of the contents of the request.json file sent as the request body.

{
  "timestamp":<timestamp>
}

Example of the Response Headers

The following shows an example of the response headers.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2020 17:55:50 GMT
Server: Apache/2.4.6 () OpenSSL/1.0.2k-fips mod_fcgid/2.3.9 PHP/5.4.40
X-UA-Compatible: IE=Edge,chrome=1
Content-Length: 62
Content-Type: application/json; charset=ISO-8859-1

Example of the Response Body

The following example shows the contents of the response body in JSON format.

{
  "status":"success",
  "message":"OS partition switch complete."
}