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Entity - Instructions (Questions and Actions) - Interrogates the Instruction table

VerbRequestNotesPermissions Required
GET - single

/Consumer/Instructions /{instructionId}

 

 

Gets an individual question or action by an Id.

Example Request
{
   "Id": 54,
   "Name": "AgentDiagnostics",
   "Description": "Get live diagnostic information from Tachyon Agents",
   "ProductPackId": 7,
   "InstructionType":0,
   "ReadablePayload": "Tachyon agent diagnostic information.",
   "Parameters":null,
   "Schema":[
      {
         "Name": "CrashDumpsCollected",
         "Type": "int32",
         "Length": 0
      },
      {
         "Name": "BytesReceived",
         "Type": "int64",
         "Length": 0
      },
      {
         "Name": "BytesSent",
         "Type": "int64",
         "Length": 0
      },
      {
         "Name": "ConnectionsSuccessful",
         "Type": "int32",
         "Length": 0
      },
      {
         "Name": "ConnectionsFailed",
         "Type": "int32",
         "Length": 0
      },
      {
         "Name": "ExecutionsSuccessful",
         "Type": "int32",
         "Length": 0
      },
      {

         "Name": "ExecutionsErrored",
         "Type": "int32",
         "Length": 0
      },
      {
         "Name": "ExecutionsNotImplemented",
         "Type": "int32",
         "Length": 0
      },
      {
         "Name": "ExecutionsPayloadTooLarge",
         "Type": "int32",
         "Length": 0
      },
      {
         "Name": "StartupTimeUtc",
         "Type": "datetime",
         "Length": 0
      }
   ],
   "Aggregation":null,
   "Category": "Agent",
   "InstructionTtlMinutes": 60,
   "ResponseTtlMinutes": 120,
   "MinimumInstructionTtlMinutes": 10,
   "MaximumInstructionTtlMinutes": 1440,
   "MinimumResponseTtlMinutes": 10,
   "MaximumResponseTtlMinutes": 10080,
   "PreviousResultsFilter": null,
   "ResultsFilter": {
      "Attribute": "CrashDumpsCollected",
      "Operator": ">",
      "Value": "0"
   },
   "ConsumerCustomData": null,
   "OffloadResponses": false
 }
  • Viewer
  • Questioner
  • Actioner
  • Approver

Returns Unauthorized (401) if user does not have the required permissions at global level or on the parent InstructionDefinition's product pack.

POST/Consumer/Instructions/search

To search instructions based on criteria along with sorting and pagination.

Example Request
{
    "filter":{
        "Operator": "AND",
        "Operands": [ 
            { 
                "Attribute": "Status",
                "Operator": "==",
                "Value": "5"
            },
            { 
                "Attribute": "CreatedTime",
                "Operator": ">=",
                "Value": "2016-04-21T06:30:00Z"
            },
            { 
                "Attribute": "CreatedTime",
                "Operator": "<=",
                "Value": "2016-04-30T19:55:00"
            }
        ]
    },
    "start": 1,
    "pageSize": 10,
    "sort": [
        {
            "Column": "payload",
            "Direction": "ASC"
        },
        {
            "Column": "CreatedTime",
            "Direction": "DESC"
        }
    ]
}
  • filter - filter expression.To learn about how to define filter check Using scope and filter expressions page.
  • start - starting index to support pagination. Begins from 1.
  • pagesize - number of results to fetch
  • sort - sort expression. To learn about how to define sort criteria check Sort Defintion page.

Allowed filter columns:

  • Payload
  • Description
  • CreatedTime
  • Status
  • DefinitionName (v1.6)
  • ConsumerCustomData (v1.6)

Allowed sortable columns

  • Payload
  • Description
  • CreatedTime
  • Status

 

NOTE: Only system consumer can search for other consumers' instructions. Other consumers will only see their instructions.

  • Viewer
  • Questioner
  • Actioner
  • Approver

It does not return Unauthorized (401) rather filters out instructions based on permissions.

POST

/Consumer/Instructions

 

 

Creates a question, action or event.

Example Request
{
	"DefinitionId": 9,
    "DefinitionName": null,
    "Scope": {
		"Attribute": "OsType",
		"Operator" : "=",
		"Value": "Windows"
	},
    "Parameters": null,
	"InstructionTtlMinutes": 60,
	"ResponseTtlMinutes": 120,
    "ParentInstructionId": null,
    "KeepRaw": false,
    "Export": false,
    "ExportLocation": null,
    "ResultsFilter": {
		"Attribute": "NumberOfCores",
		"Operator": ">",
		"Value": "2"
	},
	"PreviousResultsFilter": null,
    "ConsumerCustomData": "MyCustomData",
    "OffloadResponses": false
}

will return:

Example Response
{
	"Id": 199,
	"Name": "System Processor Details",
	"Description": "Represents a device capable of interpreting a 
sequence of machine instructions on a computer system running Windows",
	"InstructionType": 0,
	"ReadablePayload": "Get Processor Details",
	"Cmd": "SendAll",
	"Schema": [
	    {
    		"Name": "Caption",
    		"Type": "string",
    		"Length": 256
    	},
    	{
    		"Name": "Description",
    		"Type": "string",
    		"Length": 256
    	},
    	{
    		"Name": "Manufacturer",
    		"Type": "string",
    		"Length": 256
    	},
    	{
    		"Name": "NumberOfCores",
    		"Type": "int32",
    		"Length": 0
    	}
    ],
	"Aggregation": null,
	"KeepRaw": false,
	"Scope": null,
	"QuestionTtlMinutes": 60,
	"AnswerTtlMinutes": 120,
	"CreatedTimestampUtc": "2015-10-01T08:36:38.663",
	"Status": 0,
	"AnswerCount": 0,
	"SentCount": 0,
	"ParentQuestionId": null,
	"QuestionDefinitionId": 9,
	"CreatedBy": "",
	"ResultsFilter": {
		"Attribute": "NumberOfCores",
		"Operator": ">",
		"Value": "2"
	},
	"PreviousResultsFilter": null,
    "ConsumerId": 0,
    "ConsumerCustomData": "MyCustomData",
    "OffloadResponses": false,
    "ParameterJson" : null
 }

For questions

  • Questioner
  • Actioner

 

For actions

  • Actioner

Returns Unauthorized (401) if user does not have the required permissions at global level or on the parent InstructionDefinition's product pack.

 

 

POST

/Consumer/Instructions /Targeted

 

Creates a question or action, supplying a targeted list of devices by Fqdn

As above with the added "Devices" Json property e.g.

Example Request
{
	"DefinitionId": 9,
    "DefinitionName": null,
    "Parameters": null,
    "InstructionTtlMinutes": 60,
    "ResponseTtlMinutes": 120,
    "ParentInstructionId": null,
    "KeepRaw": false,
    "Export": false,
    "ExportLocation": null,
    "ResultsFilter": {
		"Attribute": "NumberOfCores",
		"Operator": ">",
		"Value": "2"
	},
	"PreviousResultsFilter": null,
    "ConsumerCustomData": "MyCustomData",
    "OffloadResponses": false,
	"Devices":["pedvwks127.pe.local","pedvwks126.pe.local","pedvwks240.pe.local"]
}

 As above

Note: Fqdn list is limited by MaxRequestLength which defaults to 4MB

POST/Consumer/Instructions /{instructionId}/cancel/{keepData}

Cancels an instruction.

  • id - question to stop
  • keepData - flag to indicate if result should be deleted

 

For questions

  • Questioner
  • Actioner

 

For actions

  • Actioner

Returns Unauthorized (401) if user does not have the required permissions at global level or on the parent InstructionDefinition's product pack. Instruction's owner can also cancel.

POST/Consumer/Instructions /{instructionId}/rerun

Reruns a question.

Rerunning an action is not allowed, as it can be risky.

For questions

  • Questioner
  • Actioner

Returns Unauthorized (401) if user does not have the required permissions at global level or on the parent InstructionDefinition's product pack.

GET/Consumer/Instructions/{instructionId}/targetlistGets targets of given instruction

For questions

  • Questioner
  • Actioner

Returns Unauthorized (401) if user does not have the required permissions at global level or on the parent InstructionDefinition's product pack.

GET/Consumer/Instructions/InFlight/InstructionSet/{instructionSetId}

Gets "In-Flight" instructions for a given Instruction Set.

 

The result has this shape:

 

Example Request
{
    "TotalCount": 2,
    "Items": [
        {
            "Id": 2401,
            "Name": "TachyonCore-BiosDetails",
            .....
        }
    ]
}

 

The "TotalCount" property contains the total available In-flight instructions.

The "Items" property contains the list of In-flight instructions which the user can see. (and therefore its length could be less than TotalCount).

 

Filters out the results based on permissions.