Example of Accessing the API with cURL

The following example shows how to add a device group by submitting a POST request on the REST resource using cURL. For more information about cURL, see Use cURL.

curl -X POST \
    -b sessionid.txt \
    --header "Accept: application/xml" \
    --header "Content-Type: application/xml" \
    "https://example.com:8443/rest/v1.3/inventory/deviceMgmt/deviceGroups"

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

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<deviceGroup>
    <name>Devgrp</name>
</deviceGroup>

Example of Accessing the API with Python

The following example shows how to add a device group by submitting a POST request on the REST resource using Python. This example assumes the cookie variable contains a valid authentication cookie. For an example of authenticating with Python, see Authenticate.

import requests
from lxml import etree
url = "https://example.com:8443/rest/v1.3/inventory/deviceMgmt/deviceGroups"
headers = { "Accept":"application/xml", "Content-Type":"application/xml", "Cookie":cookie }
data = etree.tostring(etree.parse("request.json"))
resp = requests.post(url, headers=headers, data=data)

Example of the Response Body

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

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<deviceGroup>
    <fullName>Devgrp</fullName>
    <id>ID7</id>
    <isHidden>false</isHidden>
    <name>Devgrp</name>
    <parentGroupId>ID0</parentGroupId>
</deviceGroup>