Is it just me, or is there no way to use Rest to push out a client agent?  Seems like you have to go it via the gui, or a custom install package.

I want to add it to our build process for Machines.  be able to make a rest call, passing all the required variables, so that the client gets installed, and registered.  I haven't been able to find anything via powershell (seems to be a frontend to Rest) or any other automation method.  THe goal is to keep people out of the webconsole/Console, and have it part of our automation stack.

The only way I can think of doing it, is to create a package, and run a remote powershell on the endpoint, that will install/register, but would rather not.

Any insight in to a better way to install? 

Hi Bryan

Try out Workflows, they can do pretty much everything the GUIs can and more, and they can be triggered via /wapi Endpoint using REST.

We automated adding/removing VM and FS Backups and enabling/disabling Clients using that method. 

Regards,

Stefan

you can do this through the CreateTask API or through InstallClient

https://api.commvault.com/?version=latest#1fb3fec7-ef98-4bff-8f1c-48c6f1968aebhttps://api.commvault.com/?version=latest#1fb3fec7-ef98-4bff-8f1c-48c6f1968aeb

Unfortunately, the booksonline api reference does not appear to have all apis listed, but the api.commvault.com has more info.

Here is a sample XML for CreateTask - I am still working on details, but have gotten the SQL Agent and File System Agent installed on a raw server.

{
  "taskInfo": {
    "associations": [
      {
        "commCellId": 2
      }
    ],
    "task": {
      "taskType": 1,
      "initiatedFrom": 1,
      "taskFlags": {
        "disabled": false
      }
    },
    "subTasks": [
      {
        "subTask": {
          "subTaskType": 1,
          "operationType": 4026
        },
        "options": {
          "adminOpts": {
            "clientInstallOption": {
              "reuseADCredentials": false,
              "installOSType": 0,
              "discoveryType": 0,
              "installerOption": {
                "requestType": 0,
                "Operationtype": 0,
                "CommServeHostName": "",
                "RemoteClient": false,
                "installFlags": {
                  "allowMultipleInstances": true,
                  "restoreOnlyAgents": false,
                  "killBrowserProcesses": true,
                  "install32Base": false,
                  "disableOSFirewall": false,
                  "stopOracleServices": false,
                  "skipClientsOfCS": false,
                  "addToFirewallExclusion": true,
                  "ignoreJobsRunning": false,
                  "forceReboot": false,
                  "overrideClientInfo": true,
                  "firewallInstall": {
                    "enableFirewallConfig": false,
                    "firewallConnectionType": 0,
                    "portNumber": 0
                  }
                },
                "User": {
                  "userName": "admin",
                  "userId": 1
                },
                "clientComposition": [
                  {
                    "packageDeliveryOption": 0,
                    "overrideSoftwareCache": false,
                    "components": {
                      "commonInfo": {
                        "globalFilters": 2
                      },
                      "fileSystem": {
                        "configureForLaptopBackups": false
                      },
                      "componentInfo": [                                           
                        {
                          "osType": "Windows",
                          "ComponentId": 702
                        },
                        {
                          "osType": "Windows",
                          "ComponentId": 353
                        }
                      ]
                    },
                    "clientInfo": {
                      "client": {
                        "evmgrcPort": 0,
                        "cvdPort": 0,
                        "installDirectory": ""
                      }
                    }
                  }
                ]
              },
              "clientDetails": [                                                           
                {
                    "clientEntity": {
                      "clientName": "",
                      "commCellName": ""
                    }
                  }
  
              ],
              "clientAuthForJob": {
                "password": "",
                "userName": ""
              }
            },
            "updateOption": {
              "rebootClient": false
            }
          }
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}