1. Operations
2. appliance
3. system
4. version

## appliance system version: get

Get the version.

### Request:

#### HTTP request

GET https://{server}/rest/appliance/system/version
No request parameters

### Response:

#### HTTP Status Code: 200

#### Representations:

- JSON
- XML

{
"value": {
"build": "string",
"install_time": "string",
"product": "string",
"releasedate": "string",
"summary": "string",
"type": "string",
"version": "string"
}
}
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<ns0:Get-Result xmlns:ns0="http://vmware.com/appliance/system/version" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<value>
<summary>string</summary>
<product>string</product>
<install_time>string</install_time>
<releasedate>string</releasedate>
<type>string</type>
<build>string</build>
<version>string</version>
</value>
</ns0:Get-Result>

#### Response Type:

Name | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
bold = required
value | version_struct | version information about the appliance.
value.version | string | Appliance version.
value.product | string | Appliance name.
value.build | string | Appliance build number.
value.type | string | Type of product. Same product can have different deployment options, which is represented by type.
value.summary | string | Summary of patch (empty string, if the appliance has not been patched)
value.releasedate | string | Release date of patch (empty string, if the appliance has not been patched)
value.install_time | string | Display the date and time when this system was first installed. Value will not change on subsequent updates.

#### Errors:

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