swagger get device and post device changed in CU5 which adversely impacts current implementation

Products

• DX Unified Infrastructure Management (Nimsoft / UIM)
• CA Unified Infrastructure Management On-Premise (Nimsoft / UIM)
• CA Unified Infrastructure Management SaaS (Nimsoft / UIM)

Issue/Introduction

Our customer uses the UIMAPI to create perspectives of devices to manage group assignments. In the CU5 release the get devices and post devices calls in the swagger user interface have been changed so that it becomes unusable for the customers implementation. It affects an automated process that runs every night using this component. 

Parameters are missing.

Environment

• DX UIM v23.4 CU4, CU5
• UIMAPI 23.4.5
• swagger UI

Cause

• Changes/missing parameters in uimapi from CU4 to CU5

Resolution

Updated uimapi attached to this article which resolves the POST device call issues where using the callback to set the role parameter throws an Error 500 in CU5 with the same XML used to create the perspective that runs fine in CU4.

Note that uimapi-23.4.5.1.zip can only be used in a CU5 environment.