Update Asset Hostname API

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Hi all,
Struggling with this one…
We have some assets which dont have their hostname listed in InsightVM. This is to be expected and due to internal technical reasons.
I want to be able to update them by fetching data from one system and updating it on InsightVM, probably as part of a workflow every X hours. For now, im just trying to get basic. functionality working.

Couple of issues so far:

  • GETing an asset uses /api/3/assets/{id}
  • POSTing an asset uses /api/3/sites/{id}/assets with an id of the asset in the body of the request.
    • Nowhere in the GET or asset search does it list the SiteID associated with an Asset to be able to dynamically insert the SiteID.
  • When doing a test POST to update an asset with a known SiteID and AssetID, with the following example data:
    https://{fqdn}/api/3/sites/9/assets - POST
{
    "id": 2651,
    "date": "2024-03-04T00:31:57.082Z",
    "hostName": {
        "name": "testing",
        "source":"DNS"
    }
}

The API just CREATES a NEW asset, rather than updating the existing one.
The documentation states that the POST can be used for creating OR updating:
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Does anyone know whether its possible to do what im trying to do here?

Thanks

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I’m attempting to do the same thing. So far no joy.