Get error with using API

[a_user]

When using the REST API to control VMs, how would I get the status and error message associated with the task that gets spawned? For example, if I call "start" the response is immediate (success) but I can see in the web portal that the task errored out.

 

[Hannes Laimer]

Hey,

when you start a task you get the id of that started task in the response(it looks something like this UPID:<node>:000026BC:0001AE8B:5F8FD634:vzdump:<vmid>:root@pam:), with that id you can now get

the log with: /api2/json/nodes/<nodename>/tasks/<id_from_earlier>/log​

and

the current status with: /api2/json/nodes/<nodename>/tasks/<id_from_earlier>/status​

 

[a_user]

I get the following for the current status: {"data":{"node":"...","status":"stopped","upid":"...","pstart":227925323,"exitstatus":"start failed: QEMU exited with code 1","user":"root@pam","type":"qmstart","id":"101","pid":52013,"starttime":1603262483}}
What would be the best way to check for error?
Seems like I would do 'exitstatus' != OK?

Also, what is the "status" field referring to?

 

[fabian]

status is whether the task is (still) running, and exitstatus indicates whether it ran successfully. if you look at the task index, exitstatus is unfortunately named 'status' there..