topic Re: Publish cannot be performed with web_api in API / CLI Discussion

Publish cannot be performed with web_api

hermanmaleiane — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 16:23:49 GMT

Hi team,

I'm getting a error while using the mthod publish after using a method add-host .

I use the task-id returned in the publish method on the method show-task and i got the below response:

{

"tasks": [

{

"task-id": "01234567-89ab-cdef-b239-ae1a014fbefc",

"task-name": "Publish operation",

"status": "failed",

"progress-percentage": 100,

"suppressed": false,

"task-details": [

{

"fault-message": "Publish cannot be performed without entering a session name and description."

}

]

}

]

}

As i can see in the documentation publish method only accept empty body:

POST {{server}}/v1.1/publish
Content-Type: application/json
X-chkp-sid: {{session}}

{ }

How can i solve this problem?

Thanks in advance

Re: Publish cannot be performed with web_api

Bob_Zimmerman — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 17:04:49 GMT

You need to make a call to 'set session' to specify the new-name and description for the session.

Re: Publish cannot be performed with web_api

hermanmaleiane — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 06:56:37 GMT

Hi @Bob_Zimmerman,

Thanks for replying.

When do i need to call set session? after the invocation of add-host?

Re: Publish cannot be performed with web_api

Bob_Zimmerman — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 15:45:54 GMT

Call it any time after login and before you try to publish.

This is not needed by default. Somebody must have enabled the option on the management server to require all sessions have a name and description.

Re: Publish cannot be performed with web_api

jzena — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 02:34:37 GMT

hello,

question could you invoke set session ? because i can't add host tries to publish if i run it first and set session creates the session and publish it automatically.

Regards

Re: Publish cannot be performed with web_api

Bob_Zimmerman — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 15:03:51 GMT

It sounds like you're trying to use it with '-r true'. That switch is a batch of API commands: login, make the call in the command line, publish, logout. You can't use it to make changes if you require sessions to have a name or description. Instead, you need to do all of these as distinct steps, like so:

login
Set your session properties
Make your change
publish
logout