Get list of hotfixes currently installed

[#1]

Hi!

Is there a way to get a list of the hotfixes currently installed in an Infoblox appliance? I am not able to find anything in the documentation that suggests that it's possible so asking for expert's advice

Thanks in advance!

[#2]

The CLI command "show upgrade_history", run on an appliance, will give the full list for that appliance.

192.168.1.2 > show upgrade_history
REVERT version is: 8.5.0-394706
[2020/03/22 00:14:25] Hotfix Hotfix-NIOS-8.2.x-J65003-f372aac90a9eefe79da36131fada1f36-Tue-Sep-26-16-10-21-2017.bin failed, exit status = 3
[2020/04/29 16:45:15] Upgraded to: 8.5.1-397728
[2020/09/09 19:13:48] Hotfix Hotfix-NIOS-74468-APPLY-8-5-0-8-5-1-85ed6059d285231f18c692e29a413ea6-Fri-May-15-03-41-20-2020.bin applied successfully
[2020/09/09 19:28:49] Hotfix Hotfix-8.5.1-NIOS-75574-Apply-8aa175f11385cc40df7f8a13cddc0deb-Thu-Aug-6-07-43-58-2020.bin applied successfully
192.168.1.2 > 

Through WAPI we can see just the most recent hotfix for each appliance, using the upgradestatus element:

curl -k1 -u admin:infoblox -X GET 'https://192.168.1.2/wapi/v2.9/upgradestatus?type=VNODE&_return_fields%2b=subelements_status'

provides an entry like this for every appliance:

{
   "_ref": "upgradestatus/Li51cGdyYWRlc3RhAbCdEfGhWNoYXJkLm5ldHdvcmtfdmxpc3Q:gm.example.com", 
	"alternate_version": "8.5.0-394706", 
	"current_version": "8.5.1-397728", 
	"distribution_version": "", 
	"element_status": "WORKING", 
	"ha_status": "NOT_CONFIGURED", 
	"ipv4_address": "192.168.1.2", 
	"ipv6_address": "2600:1000:1234:8002::2", 
	"member": "gm.example.com", 
	"reverted": false, 
	"status_value": "COMPLETED", 
	"status_value_update_time": 1588197519, 
	"steps_completed": 1, 
	"steps_total": 1, 
	"subelements_status": [
		{
			"_ref": "upgradestatus/Li51cGdyYWRlc3RhAbCdEfGhWNoYXJkLm5ldHdvcms:gm.example.com", 
			"alternate_version": "8.5.0-394706", 
			"current_version": "8.5.1-397728", 
			"distribution_version": "", 
			"element_status": "WORKING", 
			"ha_status": "NOT_CONFIGURED", 
			"hotfixes": [
				{
					"status_text": "LAST-HOTFIX: Hotfix-8.5.1-NIOS-75574-Apply-8aa175f11385cc40df7f8a13cddc0deb-Thu-Aug-6-07-43-58-2020.bin", 
					"unique_id": "gm.example.com_hf_0"
				}, 
				{
					"status_text": "LAST-HOTFIX-TIME: Wed Sep  9 19:28:53 2020", 
					"unique_id": "gm.example.com_hf_1"
				}
			], 
			"ipv4_address": "192.168.1.2", 
			"ipv6_address": "2600:1000:1234:8002::2", 
			"member": "gm.example.com", 
			"reverted": false, 
			"status_value": "COMPLETED", 
			"status_value_update_time": 1588197519, 
			"steps": [
				{
					"status_text": "Upgrade", 
					"status_value": "COMPLETED"
				}
			], 
			"type": "PNODE", 
			"upload_version": ""
		}
	], 
	"type": "VNODE", 
	"upgrade_group": "Default", 
	"upload_version": ""
}

[#3]

Thanks Richard for your reply. I was trying to save some time when running the script... I was already establishing SSH sessions with the grid members and capturing the data with expect and then parsing the corresponding hotfix codes (NIOS-XXXX) to update our documentation accordingly. Unfortunately, there are 40+ connections so the execution takes some time so was trying to get all the info from WAPI in one go... 

Guess it'll have to wait to future releases

Thanks again!

[#4]

If this is important, I'd recommend working with your account team to put in a feature request

What scripting languange are you using?  Can you go multithreaded and peform all the expect portions simultaneously?

[#5]

I am exploring that option right now (playing with the threading library).

Thanks for your replies, much appreciated!