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Hi guys,I have been using the CVPowerShellSDK_v1 and was able to create tools and scripts for our team. Now, I would like to move a step further and make my own API Calls with the Invoke-RestMethod in PowerShell but I am having a hard time to get started (disclaimer: I have a backgrouind as a sysadmin, not a web developper). I played around with Postman, API Explorer, I went through the documentation on the subject and tried different ways to interact with APIs in PowerShell but I still haven’t succeeded in retrieving data with a simple GET method. I am at the point where I need a little help from friends to move forward. So, if anyone could help me to make a simple GET request through PowerShell with an output in JSON format, I would greatly appreciate and would be able to figure out the rest by myself.Let’s say, for example, I want to retrieve the information of the EmailServer and create a simple function like Get-CVEmailServer.In curl, the request would be: curl -X GET "https://mys
Hello Community, How do I get started with automation on commvault?What are the pre-requisites and basics steps to installation?For those using Ansible to autmoate on commvault is this preferable than performing operation directly from the commcell console?
I currently have a workflow setup to do a weekly backup/restore of some Windows filesystems, which works great. Is it possible to do the same thing with a Workflow and backup/restore a single Microsoft SQL database (out of place)? I cloned the workflow I have for the Windows files and was trying to modify it for MSSQL. It looks like I can change the agent type to MSSQL and even set an instance name. However, I’m not sure how to define a specific database. As I’m typing, I just thought of maybe a possible solution? Maybe I need to create a new backup set with the database(s) I want to test? Any recommendations on the best way to automate these backups/restores?
We are looking to automate Commvault IDA agents Installation and client settings configuration such as encryption, dedupe , storage policy , filters , schedules , database subclient settings such as oracle home, path etc. .Does anyone has custom workflows deployed for agent installation and client configuration ? if yes please share .Also , what is recommended way of achieving this ?Is it possible to achieve 100% configuration for client through RestAPI ?
Hi CVcommunity, I do have a question and maybe some of you could point to what first steps should be taken to perform the following: We have backup jobs tha are failing with error codes such as ‘Waiting for services to come online’, ‘Error encountered when closing virtual device. Please see SQL server vdi.log for more details’ and etc. - Most of those jobs usually are fixed by simply resubmitting the job or resubmitting it after restarting client services….Is there an option that Commcell could run a workflow itself when job fails with such failure reason?Workflow should restart client services and resubmit the job.
Anyone using CVPySDK and Ansible? I am unable to get it to function. I have pip installed and can run the commcell functions from within the python interpreter.When I attempt to use it in a playbook, I get an error… ERROR! couldn’t resolve module/action ‘commvault’ Ansible 2.10.7python 3.6.8. Ken
Hi All,i need help to create a powershell script using REST API command.i don’t found a lot of documentation for the specific use of REST API in powershell.in the community in have found a sample for POST LOGIN $headers = @{}$headers.add("Accept", "application/json")$headers.add("Content-Type","application/json")$username = "user"$password = "passwordtoencode"$encodePassword = [convert]::ToBase64String([Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes($password))$body = @{username=$username;password=$encodePassword;}$response = Invoke-RestMethod 'http://hostname/webconsole/api/Login' -Method POST -Headers $headers -Body $($body | ConvertTo-Json )$responseBut somenone have sample for all kind of REST API sample ?Thank in advanceChristophe
Good Day, I have noticed that when Connecting to the Admin Console it throws me a bunch of errors and it displays this “Unable to load the data from server.” Also when trying to access he Console it gives me this web page “HTTP Error 404. The requested resource is not found.” All services are started and i have rebooted the server aswell.
Hi guys! I’m completely new to REST API.I just downloaded the Postman CommVault Rest API Workspace and now I’m trying to start with the basic: authentication. But let’s get one step back to the Swagger UI. Just to exclude any wrong configuration inside Postman. I created a new test user inside the CommCell. This user is member of “master” group, so permissions should not be a problem. If I visit the Swagger UI (https://<webserver>/webconsole/sandbox/apiexplorer) and try the POST Login with this test user I get the message: errLogMessage": "Username/Password are incorrect"Well I’m pretty sure the username and the password is correct. I also tried to encode the password with Base64, but get the same error message. Other users also didn’t work. Also I can see a “Authorize” button on the top right corner. When I click on this button I can provide a Authtoken. But where I get this from? Obviously I’m doing something wrong here. Please tell me what.
Hi Team,For trigerring of the File Anomaly alerts is there a specific threshold value for that. Or do we have any additional setting or setting that we can mention a threshold value to trigger the alerts.Ex: Only when files modified or created or any activity are more then 10000, then only I should receive File Anomaly alert. Please let me know if we have any setting that we can limit this.
