topic Re: Building a policy package with empty installation targets? in API / CLI Discussion

Building a policy package with empty installation targets?

Bob_Zimmerman — Sun, 07 Nov 2021 15:06:56 GMT

To test the ability of my code to deal properly with policy packages with empty installation targets, I'm trying to build such a policy package. It's easy in SmartConsole, but I'm not sure how to do it via the API.

[Expert@TestSC:0]# mgmt_cli -s session.txt add package name "Installed_Nowhere" access true installation-targets "none" code: "generic_err_object_not_found" message: "Requested object [none] not found" [Expert@TestSC:0]# mgmt_cli -s session.txt add package name "Installed_Nowhere" access true installation-targets "" code: "generic_err_object_not_found" message: "Requested object [] not found" [Expert@TestSC:0]# mgmt_cli -s session.txt add package name "Installed_Nowhere" access true installation-targets "[]" [Expert@TestSC:0]# mgmt_cli -f json -s session.txt show package name "Installed_Nowhere" details-level full | jq '."installation-targets"' "all" [Expert@TestSC:0]# mgmt_cli -s session.txt discard number-of-discarded-changes: 1 message: "OK" [Expert@TestSC:0]# mgmt_cli -s session.txt add package name "Installed_Nowhere" access true [Expert@TestSC:0]# mgmt_cli -f json -s session.txt show package name "Installed_Nowhere" details-level full | jq '."installation-targets"' "all" [Expert@TestSC:0]# mgmt_cli -s session.txt set package name "Installed_Nowhere" installation-targets.remove "all" code: "generic_err_object_not_found" message: "Requested object [all] not found"

Meanwhile, on a real box I have with a policy I built in SmartConsole:

[Expert@StandingLab:0]# mgmt_cli -f json -r true show package name "Installed_Nowhere" details-level full | jq '."installation-targets"' []

Is there a special value I can pass to 'add package' to get it to build a package with an empty installation targets list?

Separately, I have tried building it with a single installation target, then removing that target. That causes the property to change to "all" rather than to an empty list. That seems very unlikely to be expected behavior.

Re: Building a policy package with empty installation targets?

PhoneBoy — Sun, 07 Nov 2021 17:03:06 GMT

If None (notice the caps) doesn’t work, maybe @Omer_Kleinstern knows.

Re: Building a policy package with empty installation targets?

Bob_Zimmerman — Sun, 07 Nov 2021 17:34:55 GMT

I thought I had tried that, but I had not. Sadly, I get the same result:

[Expert@TestSC:0]# mgmt_cli -s session.txt add package name "Installed_Nowhere" access true installation-targets "None" code: "generic_err_object_not_found" message: "Requested object [None] not found"

Re: Building a policy package with empty installation targets?

StuartGreen — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 09:53:13 GMT

try this out (but be wary when using generic-object, I suspect you can do this with the REST API interface more easily but can't get at it right now in my lab).

mgmt_cli -r true set generic-object uid <UID for your policy package here> installationTargets "SPECIFIC_GATEWAYS"

The equivalent setting for the default of all gateways is ALL_INTERNAL_GATEWAYS

Re: Building a policy package with empty installation targets?

Bob_Zimmerman — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 18:53:11 GMT

That worked. Thanks!

Separately, the properties in 'show generic-object' are camelCase, which is incredibly nice. I don't recall seeing anything about this in the API documentation, but it's possible I've been looking in the wrong places. This could make my life significantly easier.