Example of Accessing the API with cURL

The following example shows how to create, download or delete diagnostics packages 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/v1/admin/log_diag/diagDumpOperations"

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

{
  "diagnostics": {
    "operation":"create",
    "filename":"diagtest123.tar.gz"
    },
  "timestamp":<timestamp>
}

Example of the Response Headers

The following shows an example of the response headers.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 18:49:21 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: 39
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",
  "data":"Successfully created Diagnostics File diagtest123.tar.gz"
}