Qualys Cloud Platform 2.10 (PM) API Notification 1

Prabhas Gupte

A new release of Qualys Cloud Platform 2.10 (PM) includes updated APIs which is targeted for release in April 2024. The specific day will differ depending on the platform. See platform release dates on the Qualys Status page. This API notification provides an early preview into the coming API, allowing you to identify use cases that can leverage this updated API.

What’s New

In this release, we have introduced 2 new APIs and updated 5 APIs with new parameters. The new APIs will be useful while working with Patch Management assets and custom patch download URLs, whereas the updated APIs will help you manage the deployment jobs more effectively.

Newly Added APIs

Get a List of All Patch Management Assets

POST /pm/v1/assets
Using this API, you can get a list of more than ten thousand assets enabled for your Patch Management subscription.

Fetch Custom Patch Download URLs

GET /pm/v1/configurationDetails/customPatchDownloadUrls
Using this API, you can get a list of configured custom patch download URLs.

Updated APIs

The below listed APIs are updated with following capabilities.

  1. The patchTuesdayPlusXDays parameter now also supports values within the day range of -27 to -1 days for Windows and Linux jobs.
  2. The customPatchURLId parameter is introduced to support using the “Download Patches from the Internal Repository” option while creating the Windows or Mac deployment job.

Create a Deployment Job

POST /pm/v1/deploymentjob
Request and Response will have the above-mentioned parameters.

Update a Deployment Job

PATCH /pm/v1/deploymentjob/update/{deploymentJobId}
Request and Response will have the above-mentioned parameters.

Get Deployment by Job ID

GET /pm/v1/deploymentjob/{deploymentJobId}
Response will have the above-mentioned parameters.

Similarly, the below listed APIs are updated to include a new osIdentifier field in the response.

Get Deployment Job Result Summary

GET /pm/v1/deploymentjob/{deploymentJobId}/deploymentjobresult/summary

Get Deployment Job Result Summary (Provision to Manually Include 50 to 100 assets to the Job)

POST /pm/v1/deploymentjob/{deploymentJobId}/deploymentjobresult/summary

Please refer the detailed release notes here: https://cdn2.qualys.com/docs/release-notes/qualys-patch-management-2.10-api-release-notes.pdf

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