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Reputation: 9

How to check for vCenter Server updates with the vSphere Python API?

I want to automate the checking of new vCenter Server updates with the vSphere Python API with the intent in mind to then be able to decide with a prompt if I should update or not.

I checked for existing scripts and went through the API documentation but the python examples are scarce and the vCenter Server update/upgrade category is very lackluster and lacks any python code. IS it even possible to achieve what I want from python? Even if it's something else, it would still be fine, but the goal is not to have to upgrade from the Vsphere client itself.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 232

Answers (1)

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Reputation: 9

Without leveraging the Python API but using the REST API instead, I managed to achieve my goal using this:

import requests
import json

import config

def main():
    session = requests.Session()

    sess = session.post(f"https://{config.server}/rest/com/vmware/cis/session", auth=(config.username, config.password), verify=False)
    session_id = sess.json()['value']

    get_upgrade_url = f"https://{config.server}/api/vcenter/deployment/upgrade"
    response = session.get(get_upgrade_url, headers={'vmware-api-session-id': session_id}, verify=False)

    ########### JSON Handling
    json_object = json.loads(response.text)
    json_formatted_str = json.dumps(json_object, indent=2)
    print(json_formatted_str)
    ######################

    check_upgrade_url = f"https://{config.server}/rest/appliance/update/pending?source_type=LAST_CHECK"
    check_response = session.get(check_upgrade_url, headers={'vmware-api-session-id': session_id}, verify=False)
    print(check_response)

    ########### JSON Handling
    json_object = json.loads(check_response.text)
    json_formatted_str = json.dumps(json_object, indent=2)
    print(json_formatted_str)
    ######################

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

Upvotes: 0

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