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Dell Unity™ Family Unisphere® Management REST API Programmer's Guide

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Uploading upgrade candidates and language packs

You can upload upgrade candidates (software or firmware) and language packs to the storage system to make them available to install. To install an uploaded file, create a new candidateSoftwareVersion instance.

NOTE When you upload an upgrade candidate file onto the storage system, it replaces the previous version. There can only be one upgrade candidate on the system at a time.

For information about the candidateSoftwareVersion resource type, see the Unisphere Management REST API Reference Guide.

Syntax

To upload a system software upgrade candidate or language pack file, use the following components:

Headers 
Accept: application/json
Content-Type: application/json
X-EMC-REST-CLIENT: true
EMC-CSRF-TOKEN: <token>
Operation 
POST
URI pattern 
/upload/files/types/candidateSoftwareVersion
Body
Empty.
Usage
You must post the upgrade file using a multipart/form-data format as if from a simple web page form, like that shown in the following example: 
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
 <body>
   <form enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post"
     action="https://<IP_address>/upload/file/types/candidateSoftwareVersion">
     <input type="file" name="filename>"/> 
      <input type="submit"/> 
    </form>
 </body>
</html>

A successful upload request returns 200 OK HTTP status code. If the request does not succeed, the server returns a 4nn or 5nn HTTP status code in the response header and a message entity in the response body.

Example

The following example uploads the upgrade candidate file update1.gpg from the local host to the storage server:

Header 
Accept: application/json
Content-Type: application/json
X-EMC-REST-CLIENT: true
EMC-CSRF-TOKEN: <token>
Request 
<html>
  <body>
    <form enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post" action="https://10.108.253.216/upload/files/types/candidateSoftwareVersion
        <input type="file" name="filename"/>
        <input type="submit"/>
    </form>
  </body>

filename="update1.gpg"
Request body
Empty.
Response body (raw) for a successful response
Empty.

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