REST API: via Python to get the ETag and use it to update a host?

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Hi please try the following to get the etag:

HOST_NAME = "yourhost"
SITE_NAME = "yoursite"
API_URL = f"https://{HOST_NAME}/{SITE_NAME}/check_mk/api/1.0"

USERNAME = "youruser"
PASSWORD = "yoursecret"

HOSTNAME = "hostnameToQuery"

query_string = urllib.parse.urlencode({
})

request = urllib.request.Request(
    f"{API_URL}/objects/host_config/{HOSTNAME}?{query_string}",
    method="GET",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {USERNAME} {PASSWORD}",
        "Accept": "application/json",
   },
)
response = urllib.request.urlopen(request)
if response.status == 200:
    etag = str(response.headers["ETag"])
elif response.status == 204:
    print("Done")
else:
    raise RuntimeError(response.read())

You can then use the etag variable for the “If-Match” Header.