REST API - documents

[esha1]

Im new to bigfix… I would like to explore my knowledge in REST API. i dont have clear idea how to use REST API in my environment… Can someone provide some documents to learn basic REST API.

[mhayden]

Hi @esha1,

Here you will find everything you need related to REST and BigFix. If you are looking to understand REST at a more generic level, you can go here

Once you get more familiar, a great tool for testing is Postman

[cmcannady]

In addition to what @mhayden provided, there’s also the REST API guide on the BigFix.me site. However, the BigFix developer site is the source of truth.

[esha1]

Thanks casey…i will start looking…

Appreciated for prompt response

[akashpande]

Hi,
Could you please tell if there is a rest api available to subscribe computers to custom site or is there any other way to automate this?

[alinder]

The REST API allows you to create or modify existing sites.

https://developer.bigfix.com/rest-api/examples/create-site.html
https://developer.bigfix.com/rest-api/examples/update-site.html

The create-site documentation shows you the syntax for setting the subscription relevance for a new site. If you follow the syntax laid out in that document for the site.xml you use for your edit request, it should allow you to modify the subscription relevance for an existing one.

Disclaimer — I haven’t done this myself, but I don’t see anything on these pages that makes me think it won’t work as described.

[akashpande]

Thanks a lot for your suggestion.
I will try this and post once implemented