For most write-requests, using the POST, PUT and DELETE HTTP methods, the response from the API contains an XML or JSON representation of the job data specific to the process that has been queued on Oracle VM Manager for the task that you are performing. Since jobs within Oracle VM Manager are sequential and can take time to complete, it is common to check whether a job is complete before continuing. It is also useful to obtain job information to determine whether a task has succeeded or failed, along with error messages for job failure.

You can obtain details for a particular job by sending a GET request to the following URI:

https://hostname:port/ovm/core/wsapi/rest/Job/id

Substitute the id in the URI with the ID that is generated for the job. Remember that the job URI is sent in the XML or JSON response returned for any POST, PUT or DELETE request.