KSC Open API  13.1
Kaspersky Security Center API description
Sample. Enumerating tasks, querying task statistics and running task.

The Python code is presented below:

# #!/usr/bin/python -tt
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

"""This module presents samples of usage KlAkOAPIWrapperLib package to find and execute task by name"""

import socket
import time
from sys import platform
from KlAkOAPI.Params import KlAkParams, KlAkArray, paramParams
from KlAkOAPI.AdmServer import KlAkAdmServer
from KlAkOAPI.Tasks import KlAkTasks
from KlAkOAPI.HostGroup import KlAkHostGroup
from KlAkOAPI.EventProcessing import KlAkEventProcessing

def GetServer():
    """Connects to KSC server"""
    # server details - connect to server installed on current machine, use default port
    server_address = socket.getfqdn()
    server_port = 13299
    server_url = 'https://' + server_address + ':' + str(server_port)

    if platform == "win32":
        username = None # for Windows use NTLM by default
        password = None
    else:
        username = 'klakoapi_test' # for other platform use basic auth, user should be created on KSC server in advance
        password = 'test1234!'
        
    SSLVerifyCert = 'C:\\ProgramData\\KasperskyLab\\adminkit\\1093\\cert\\klserver.cer'

    # create server object
    server = KlAkAdmServer.Create(server_url, username, password, verify = SSLVerifyCert)
    
    return server
    
def FindTask(oTasks, strDisplayName):
    print('Searching for task', strDisplayName)
    strTaskIteratorId = oTasks.ResetTasksIterator(nGroupId=0, bGroupIdSignificant=True, strProductName=None, strVersion=None, strComponentName=None, strInstanceId=None, strTaskName=None, bIncludeSupergroups=True).OutPar("strTaskIteratorId")       
    nTaskId = None
    while True:
        pTaskData = oTasks.GetNextTask(strTaskIteratorId).OutPar('pTaskData')
        if pTaskData == None or len(pTaskData) == 0:
            break
        strDN = pTaskData['TASK_INFO_PARAMS']['DisplayName']
        if strDN == strDisplayName:
            print('Task ' + strDN + ' found')
            nTaskId = pTaskData['TASK_UNIQUE_ID']
            break
                        
    oTasks.ReleaseTasksIterator(strTaskIteratorId)
    return nTaskId


def GetLastTaskResult(server, oTasks, strID):
    ''' Prints task history and returns last state '''
    #fill object with required fields
    oFields2Return = KlAkArray(['event_type', 'task_new_state', 'event_id', 'rise_time'])

    #sort descending by publication time
    oSortFields = KlAkArray([paramParams({'Name': 'rise_time', 'Asc' : False})])

    #we need only task state events
    oFilter = KlAkParams({'event_type': 'KLPRCI_TaskState'})

    oHistory = oTasks.GetTaskHistory(strID, oFields2Return, oSortFields, '', oFilter)

    oResult = None
    strIteratorId = oHistory.OutPar('strIteratorId')
    oEventProcessing = KlAkEventProcessing(server)
    if oEventProcessing.GetRecordCount(strIteratorId).RetVal() > 0:
        pParamsEvents = oEventProcessing.GetRecordRange  ( strIteratorId,  0,  oEventProcessing.GetRecordCount(strIteratorId).RetVal() ).OutPar('pParamsEvents')
        if pParamsEvents != None and 'KLEVP_EVENT_RANGE_ARRAY' in pParamsEvents:
            for item in pParamsEvents['KLEVP_EVENT_RANGE_ARRAY']:
                print('--- event --')
                print( 'event_id: ', item['event_id'],  '\tevent_type: ', item['event_type'], '\ttask_new_state: ', item['task_new_state'], '\trise_time: ', item['rise_time'])

                nState = item['task_new_state']
                if 3 == nState or 4 == nState : # if failed or completed successfully
                    oResult = item
                    break
                
        oEventProcessing.ReleaseIterator(strIteratorId)

    return oResult

def RunTaskAndReturnResult(server, oTasks, strID):
    ''' Runs task and checks for result '''
    oInfo = oTasks.GetTask(strID).RetVal()
    print(   'Processing task ' + oInfo['DisplayName'] + ' created at ' + oInfo['PRTS_TASK_CREATION_DATE'].isoformat() )

    # print task statistics into the log
    oStatistics = oTasks.GetTaskStatistics(strID).RetVal()

    print( 'Task statistics' )
    print( 'Not distributed: ', oStatistics['1'])
    print( 'Running: ', oStatistics['2'])
    print( 'OK: ', oStatistics['4'])
    print( 'Warning: ', oStatistics['8'])
    print( 'Failed: ', oStatistics['16'])
    print( 'Scheduled: ', oStatistics['32'])
    print( 'Paused: ', oStatistics['64'])

    #initial task state (before task start)
    oState0 = GetLastTaskResult(server, oTasks, strID)

    oTasks.RunTask( strID )

    # wait for a 5 seconds
    time.sleep(5)

    nResult = None
    while True:
        oState1 = GetLastTaskResult(server, oTasks, strID)
        if  ( None == oState0 and None != oState1) or ( None != oState1 and  None != oState0 and  oState1['event_id'] != oState0['event_id']):
            print('Task result is ', oState1['task_new_state'])
            nResult = oState1['task_new_state']
            break
        time.sleep(5)

    # return final task state (before task start)
    return nResult
    
    
def main():
    """ This sample shows how you can find and execute task """
    print (main.__doc__)

    #connect to KSC server using basic auth by default
    server = GetServer()

    oHostGroup = KlAkHostGroup(server)
    nRootGroupId = oHostGroup.GroupIdGroups().RetVal()
    
    oTasks = KlAkTasks(server)
    strInterestingTaskName = 'TestTask'
    strFoundTask = FindTask(oTasks, strInterestingTaskName)
    if strFoundTask == None or  strFoundTask == '': 
        print('Task', strInterestingTaskName, 'not found')
    else:
        nResult = RunTaskAndReturnResult(server, oTasks, strFoundTask)
        if 4 == nResult:
            print('Task result is Success')
        else:
            print('Task result is Failure')


    
if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()