1. Operations
2. appliance
3. health
4. softwarepackages

## appliance health softwarepackages: get

Get information on available software updates available in remote VUM repository. red indicates that security updates are available. orange indicates that non security updates are available. green indicates that there are no updates available. gray indicates that there was an error retreiving information on software updates.

### Request:

#### HTTP request

GET https://{server}/rest/appliance/health/software-packages
No request parameters

### Response:

#### HTTP Status Code: 200

#### Representations:

- JSON
- XML

{
"value": "orange"
}
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<ns0:Get-Result xmlns:ns0="http://vmware.com/appliance/health/softwarepackages" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<value>orange</value>
</ns0:Get-Result>

#### Response Type:

Name | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
bold = required
value | string | Defines health levels Value is one of: orange: The service health is degraded. The service might have serious problems gray: No health data is available for this service. green: Service is healthy. red: The service is unavaiable and is not functioning properly or will stop functioning soon. yellow: The service is healthy state, but experiencing some levels of problems.software updates available.

#### Errors:

HTTP Status Code | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
500 | error | Generic error