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Virtual Machines - Assess Patches

Assess patches on the VM.

POST https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/{vmName}/assessPatches?api-version=2024-07-01

URI Parameters

Name In Required Type Description
resourceGroupName
path True

string

The name of the resource group.

subscriptionId
path True

string

Subscription credentials which uniquely identify Microsoft Azure subscription. The subscription ID forms part of the URI for every service call.

vmName
path True

string

The name of the virtual machine.

api-version
query True

string

Client Api Version.

Responses

Name Type Description
200 OK

VirtualMachineAssessPatchesResult

OK

202 Accepted

Accepted

Other Status Codes

CloudError

Error response describing why the operation failed.

Security

azure_auth

Azure Active Directory OAuth2 Flow

Type: oauth2
Flow: implicit
Authorization URL: https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/authorize

Scopes

Name Description
user_impersonation impersonate your user account

Examples

Assess patch state of a virtual machine.

Sample request

POST https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/{subscription-id}/resourceGroups/myResourceGroupName/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/myVMName/assessPatches?api-version=2024-07-01

Sample response

{
  "status": "Succeeded",
  "assessmentActivityId": "68f8b292-dfc2-4646-9781-33cc88631968",
  "rebootPending": true,
  "criticalAndSecurityPatchCount": 1,
  "otherPatchCount": 2,
  "startDateTime": "2020-04-24T21:02:04.2556154Z",
  "availablePatches": [
    {
      "patchId": "35428702-5784-4ba4-a6e0-5222258b5411",
      "name": "Definition Update for Windows Defender Antivirus - KB2267602 (Definition 1.279.1373.0)",
      "version": "",
      "kbId": "2267602",
      "classifications": [
        "Definition Updates"
      ],
      "rebootBehavior": "NeverReboots",
      "activityId": "68f8b292-dfc2-4646-9781-33cc88631968",
      "publishedDate": "2018-11-07T00:00:00Z",
      "lastModifiedDateTime": "2020-04-24T21:18:45.2830263Z",
      "assessmentState": "Available"
    },
    {
      "patchId": "39f9cdd1-795c-4d0e-8c0a-73ab3f31746d",
      "name": "Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool x64 - October 2018 (KB890830)",
      "version": "",
      "kbId": "890830",
      "classifications": [
        "Update Rollups"
      ],
      "rebootBehavior": "CanRequestReboot",
      "activityId": "68f8b292-dfc2-4646-9781-33cc88631968",
      "publishedDate": "2018-11-07T00:00:00Z",
      "lastModifiedDateTime": "2020-04-24T21:18:45.2830263Z",
      "assessmentState": "Available"
    }
  ],
  "error": null
}
Location: https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/providers/Microsoft.Compute/locations/westus/operations/{operationId}&monitor=true&api-version=2024-07-01

Definitions

Name Description
ApiError

Api error.

ApiErrorBase

Api error base.

CloudError

An error response from the Compute service.

InnerError

Inner error details.

PatchAssessmentState

Describes the availability of a given patch.

PatchOperationStatus

The overall success or failure status of the operation. It remains "InProgress" until the operation completes. At that point it will become "Unknown", "Failed", "Succeeded", or "CompletedWithWarnings."

VirtualMachineAssessPatchesResult

Describes the properties of an AssessPatches result.

VirtualMachineSoftwarePatchProperties

The list of patches that have been detected as available for installation.

VMGuestPatchRebootBehavior

Describes the reboot requirements of the patch.

ApiError

Api error.

Name Type Description
code

string

The error code.

details

ApiErrorBase[]

The Api error details

innererror

InnerError

The Api inner error

message

string

The error message.

target

string

The target of the particular error.

ApiErrorBase

Api error base.

Name Type Description
code

string

The error code.

message

string

The error message.

target

string

The target of the particular error.

CloudError

An error response from the Compute service.

Name Type Description
error

ApiError

Api error.

InnerError

Inner error details.

Name Type Description
errordetail

string

The internal error message or exception dump.

exceptiontype

string

The exception type.

PatchAssessmentState

Describes the availability of a given patch.

Name Type Description
Available

string

Unknown

string

PatchOperationStatus

The overall success or failure status of the operation. It remains "InProgress" until the operation completes. At that point it will become "Unknown", "Failed", "Succeeded", or "CompletedWithWarnings."

Name Type Description
CompletedWithWarnings

string

Failed

string

InProgress

string

Succeeded

string

Unknown

string

VirtualMachineAssessPatchesResult

Describes the properties of an AssessPatches result.

Name Type Description
assessmentActivityId

string

The activity ID of the operation that produced this result. It is used to correlate across CRP and extension logs.

availablePatches

VirtualMachineSoftwarePatchProperties[]

The list of patches that have been detected as available for installation.

criticalAndSecurityPatchCount

integer

The number of critical or security patches that have been detected as available and not yet installed.

error

ApiError

The errors that were encountered during execution of the operation. The details array contains the list of them.

otherPatchCount

integer

The number of all available patches excluding critical and security.

rebootPending

boolean

The overall reboot status of the VM. It will be true when partially installed patches require a reboot to complete installation but the reboot has not yet occurred.

startDateTime

string

The UTC timestamp when the operation began.

status

PatchOperationStatus

The overall success or failure status of the operation. It remains "InProgress" until the operation completes. At that point it will become "Unknown", "Failed", "Succeeded", or "CompletedWithWarnings."

VirtualMachineSoftwarePatchProperties

The list of patches that have been detected as available for installation.

Name Type Description
activityId

string

The activity ID of the operation that produced this result. It is used to correlate across CRP and extension logs.

assessmentState

PatchAssessmentState

Describes the availability of a given patch.

classifications

string[]

The classification(s) of the patch as provided by the patch publisher.

kbId

string

The KBID of the patch. Only applies to Windows patches.

lastModifiedDateTime

string

The UTC timestamp of the last update to this patch record.

name

string

The friendly name of the patch.

patchId

string

A unique identifier for the patch.

publishedDate

string

The UTC timestamp when the repository published this patch.

rebootBehavior

VMGuestPatchRebootBehavior

Describes the reboot requirements of the patch.

version

string

The version number of the patch. This property applies only to Linux patches.

VMGuestPatchRebootBehavior

Describes the reboot requirements of the patch.

Name Type Description
AlwaysRequiresReboot

string

CanRequestReboot

string

NeverReboots

string

Unknown

string