Tasks

Tasks enable monitoring and administering of REST API resources that may require significant time to complete, such as updating HSM firmware. Rather than block and wait for these time-consuming actions to complete, REST API creates tasks to run the resource automatically in the background. Tasked resources return a response immediately and notify you of the status of the action: waiting, running, failed, etc. Because of their time-consuming nature, tasks are grouped separately.

Figure 1: Tasks Tab

The table below defines each command and references its corresponding resource.

Command	Function	Resource
List	Lists all available tasked resources.	GET /tasks
Kickstart	Starts a waiting task.	POST /tasks/{taskid}/actions/start
Result	Gets result and deletes task.	GET /tasks/{taskid}/response
Delete All	Deletes all tasks.	DELETE /tasks