Specified source object does not exist

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Hi There,

I’m using curl command and it returns with 'Specified source object does not exist’
while running the curl command
curl -k -u "username@password" -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/xml" -d "<BES xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance' xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation='BES.xsd'><SourcedFixletAction><SourceFixlet><Sitename>Windows</Sitename><FixletID>123</FixletID></SourceFixlet><Target><ComputerName>com123</ComputerName></Target></SourcedFixletAction></BES>" "https://servername:52311/api/actions"

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here , I tried pasting the xml after -d in the curl command, but it is not getting pasted.

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You can use the “code tag” icon to format your XML as code. I’ve fixed your post already.

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Ok, so are you abke to find the issue, why it is returning this error

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It took me a while to get to a computer - I posted earlier from my phone where I couldn’t really check it out but I could reformat so maybe others could help.
It looks like the SourceFixlet is missing the Action ID - usually “Action1” but it could vary if you wanted to send “Action2” from the source fixlet.

See https://developer.bigfix.com/rest-api/iem_cli/iem_samples.html#actions

<BES xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="BES.xsd">
      <SourcedFixletAction>
        <SourceFixlet>
            <Sitename>ActionSite</Sitename>
            <FixletID>42</FixletID>
            <Action>Action1</Action>
        </SourceFixlet>
        <Target>
            <ComputerName>my_computer.my_domain.com</ComputerName>
        </Target>
      </SourcedFixletAction>
</BES>
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With action name also it is retuning the same error. Here my KB id is of 7 digits , I have taken the source id from bigfix web console, will that be a problem?

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The Fixlet ID required is … the Fixlet ID, not the Source ID. Right-click your column headers in the Fixlets view and be sure “ID” is displayed. It should be just a number, not KBxxxxx

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instead of source id, I’ve just taken the value under Id column but still it is showing the same error.

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Updating the XML to match a site name, fixlet id, and computer name in my deployment, the XML works but…the curl command doesn’t.

On curl, the -u takes the format “username:password”, not “username@password”. I wouldn’t expect to get the “specified source object does not exist” message though, but rather something like a password prompt or a 401:Unauthorized.

I’d still check that your SiteName and FixletID values are correct. If you post your actual XML here I can help you with a session relevance query to check that.

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Actually I’m not using the right id before and now it is getting executed and as a result I’m getting the action id. Thanks for your help

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