Publish cannot be performed with web_api

[hermanmaleiane]

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 

[Bob_Zimmerman · Accepted solution]

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

[hermanmaleiane]

Hi @Bob_Zimmerman,

Thanks for replying.

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

[Bob_Zimmerman]

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.

[jzena]

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

[Bob_Zimmerman]

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:

1. login
2. Set your session properties
3. Make your change
4. publish
5. logout