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REST API - GET Agent

This operation returns a list of agents for a client.

Request

Syntax

Send the request using either the ID or the name:

  • ID

    GET <webservice>/Agent?clientId={clientId} HTTP/1.1
 Host: <host name>
 Accept: application/xml
 Authtoken: <authentication token>

  • Name

    GET <webservice>/Agent?clientName={clientName} HTTP/1.1
 Host: <host name>
 Accept: application/xml
 Authtoken: <authentication token>

where <webservice> is the root path used to route the API requests to the Web Server.

For more information, see Available Web Services for REST API.

Request Parameters

Name

Description

Required

clientId

The client ID for the client. If the client ID is not known, use the GET Client API to retrieve it.

Yes-for the request by ID

clientName

The client name for the client. If the client name is not known, use the GET Client API to retrieve it.

Yes-for the request by name

Request Headers

Name

Description

Host

The host name of the Web Server or Web Console used in the API request.

Accept

The format of the response. Valid values are: application/xml or application/json.

Authtoken

The authentication token received after successfully logging on. For details on receiving an authentication token, see Authentication.

Response

Response Parameters

Parameter

Description

Element

agentArchivePropertiesFlag

The option to enable archiving for the agent.

Valid values are True/False.

AgentProperties

agentVersion

The Agent software version installed on the client computer or application server.

AgentProperties

appPriority

AgentProperties

appTypePathnameOrder

AgentProperties

appTypePathnameSeperator

This is the character that is used to specify the different directories in a path name. The default is a backslash (\).

AgentProperties

appTypepathnameCaseSensitive

Indicates if the path name is case sensitive.

Valid values are 0/1.

AgentProperties

archiveGroup

The name of the Archive Group.

AgentProperties

createIndexOnFail

The option to convert to a full backup on indexing failures.

Valid values are True/False.

AgentProperties

createIndexOnFull

The option to create an index on a full backup.

Valid values are True/False.

AgentProperties

enableOCSOnBackupAgent

The option to enable the Office Communications Server backup.

Valid values are True/False.

AgentProperties

installDate

The installation date of the agent.

Valid values are UNIX-style timestamps (seconds since January 1, 1970).

AgentProperties

isArchiverDriverEnabled

The option to enable the recall driver.

Valid values are True/False.

AgentProperties

isExplorerBasedRecall

The option to enable Explorer-based recall.

Valid values are True/False.

AgentProperties

isMarkedDeleted

The option that marks the agent as deleted.

Valid values are True/False.

AgentProperties

isNDMPRestore

Valid values are True/False.

AgentProperties

isNeedMoreconfig

Valid values are True/False.

AgentProperties

maxSimultaneousStubRecoveries

The upper limit for the number of stubs to be recovered for this agent.

AgentProperties

objectServerInterval

An internal reference number.

Valid value is 5.

AgentProperties

patchStatus

AgentProperties

prepostUsername

The name of the user with permission to run the pre or post commands.

AgentProperties

qsnapMaxCacheSize

The maximum cache size for QSnap.

AgentProperties

qsnapMinCacheSize

The minimum cache for QSnap.

AgentProperties

timeBetweenRecalls

The time between recall jobs.

AgentProperties

timeToWaitAfterMax

The number of seconds that this agent must wait before additional stub recovery jobs can begin after the upper limit has been reached.

AgentProperties

useSnapShotWriter

Valid values are True/False.

AgentProperties

userDescription

A general description of the user.

AgentProperties

storagePolicyId

The internal storage policy ID.

indexStoragePolicy

storagePolicyName

The storage policy name visible to the user.

indexStoragePolicy

activityType

The agent activities.

Valid values are:

  • 1, for backup

  • 2, for restore

  • 4, for auxiliary copy

  • 8, for disaster recovery backup

  • 16, archive pruning

  • 32, for media recycle

  • 64, for synthetic full

  • 28, all activity

  • 256, for schedule

  • 1024, for offline content indexing

activityControlOptions

TimeZoneName

The time zone to use when the Enable after a Delay option is used with an activity. Use this parameter when the enableAfterADelay parameter is set to "true."

Sample values:

  • (UTC) Coordinated Universal Time

  • (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

dateTime

timeValue

The date and time to use when the Enable after a Delay option is used with an activity. Use this parameter when the enableAfterADelay parameter is set to "true."

Sample values:

  • 2013-12-11 09:22:32

  • 2014-01-01 17:22:32

dateTime

enableActivityType

The option to enable or disable an activity for a client.

Valid values are True/False.

activityControlOptions

enableAfterADelay

The option to enable an activity for a client on a date and time defined in the Enable Backup dialog box.

Valid values are True/False.

activityControlOptions

appName

The name of the application.

Valid values for the applicationId and appName parameters:

  • 41, Active Directory

  • 21, AIX File System

  • 64, Big Data Apps

  • 134, Cloud Apps

  • 37, DB2

  • 103, DB2 MultiNode

  • 62, DB2 on Unix

  • 128, Documentum

  • 90, Domino Mailbox Archiver

  • 91, DPM

  • 67, Exchange Compliance Archiver

  • 53, Exchange Database

  • 45, Exchange Mailbox

  • 54, Exchange Mailbox (Classic)

  • 56, Exchange Mailbox Archiver

  • 82, Exchange PF Archiver

  • 35, Exchange Public Folder

  • 73, File Share Archiver

  • 33, File System

  • 74, FreeBSD

  • 71, GroupWise DB

  • 17, HP-UX Files System

  • 65, Image Level

  • 75, Image Level On Unix

  • 76, Image Level ProxyHost

  • 87, Image Level ProxyHost on Unix

  • 3, Informix Database

  • 29, Linux File System

  • 89, MS SharePoint Archiver

  • 104, MySQL

  • 13, NAS

  • 83, Netware File Archiver

  • 12, Netware File System

  • 10, Novell Directory Services

  • 124, Object Link

  • 131, Object Store

  • 86, OES File System on Linux

  • 22, Oracle

  • 80, Oracle RAC

  • 130, Other External Agent

  • 125, PostgreSQL

  • 38, Proxy Client File System

  • 87, ProxyHost on Unix

  • 61, SAP for Oracle

  • 135, SAP HANA

  • 78, SharePoint Server

  • 20, Solaris 64bit File System

  • 19, Solaris File System

  • 81, SQL Server

  • 5, Sybase Database

  • 66, Unix File Archiver

  • 36, Unix Tru64 64-bit File System

  • 106, Virtual Server

  • 58, Windows File Archiver

idaEntity

applicationId

The ID of the application. For a list of application IDs, see the valid values for the appName parameter.

idaEntity

clientId

The system-generated ID assigned to the client.

idaEntity

clientName

The name of the client.

idaEntity

commCellId

The CommCell ID of the CommServe.

Valid value is 2.

idaEntity

_type_

The CommCell objects associated with the agent security.

Valid value is USERGROUP_ENTITY.

associatedUserGroups

userGroupId

The system-generated ID assigned to the user group associated with the agent.

associatedUserGroups

userGroupName

The name of the user group associated with the agent.

associatedUserGroups

ownerCapabilities

The capabilities of the client computer owners associated with the agent.

idaSecurity

Examples

Sample Request

This request uses the ID.

GET <webservice>/Agent?clientId=2 HTTP/1.1
 Host: client.mydomain.com
 Accept: application/xml
 Authtoken: QSDK 38568012f4d1e8ee1841d283a47aa3ba78e124ea58354b5fc6
 0f4dab8a63347d05cf5552484dafda3bfa4c5db84e580b1cb37bcf8e65b39f7f
 8549a443e6f78a2c7be3f31b3d845e24776c835e498e8e883bb40c46bd15af4f
 40ca94e823acedcdd4e9659e74b34a07a85c4586cd2ed914b6dce015874783ef7
 68fda78183a4208930954a377f66eb56c8b92cexampl4s437a19317ca6ce7f323
 3d5a01aca35dbad93468b833f2cf71010809006a937670adce711ca8be46638e8

This request uses the name.

GET <webservice>/Agent?clientName=client001 HTTP/1.1
 Host: client.mydomain.com
 Accept: application/xml
 Authtoken: QSDK 38568012f4d1e8ee1841d283a47aa3ba78e124ea58354b5fc6
 0f4dab8a63347d05cf5552484dafda3bfa4c5db84e580b1cb37bcf8e65b39f7f
 8549a443e6f78a2c7be3f31b3d845e24776c835e498e8e883bb40c46bd15af4f
 40ca94e823acedcdd4e9659e74b34a07a85c4586cd2ed914b6dce015874783ef7
 68fda78183a4208930954a377f66eb56c8b92cexampl4s437a19317ca6ce7f323
 3d5a01aca35dbad93468b833f2cf71010809006a937670adce711ca8be46638e8

Sample Response

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no" ?>
 <App_GetAgentPropertiesResponse>
   <agentProperties>
     <AgentProperties agentArchivePropertiesFlag="false" agentVersion="10(BUILD116)" appPriority="6" appTypePathnameOrder="1" appTypePathnameSeperator="\\" appTypepathnameCaseSensitive="0" archiveGroup="3" createIndexOnFail="false" createIndexOnFull="true" enableOCSOnBackupAgent="false" installDate="1373479931" isArchiverDriverEnabled="false" isExplorerBasedRecall="false" isMarkedDeleted="false" isNDMPRestore="true" isNeedMoreconfig="false" maxSimultaneousStubRecoveries="4294967295" objectServerInterval="5" patchStatus="0" prepostUsername="" qsnapMaxCacheSize="4294967295" qsnapMinCacheSize="4294967295" timeBetweenRecalls="4294967295" timeToWaitAfterMax="4294967295" useSnapShotWriter="false" userDescription="">
       <indexStoragePolicy storagePolicyId="1" storagePolicyName="CV_DEFAULT"/>
     </AgentProperties>
     <idaActivityControl>
       <activityControlOptions activityType="BACKUP" enableActivityType="true" enableAfterADelay="false"/>
       <activityControlOptions activityType="RESTORE" enableActivityType="true" enableAfterADelay="false"/>
     </idaActivityControl>
     <idaEntity appName="File System" applicationId="33" clientId="2" clientName="client001" commCellId="2"/>
     <idaSecurity>
       <associatedUserGroups _type_="USERGROUP_ENTITY" userGroupId="1" userGroupName="master"/>
       <associatedUserGroups _type_="USERGROUP_ENTITY" userGroupId="3" userGroupName="View All"/>
       <ownerCapabilities/>
     </idaSecurity>
   </agentProperties>
 </App_GetAgentPropertiesResponse>

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