Updated on 2026-04-03 GMT+08:00

Creating a Virus Scan Task

Function

This API is used to create a virus scan task.

Authorization Information

Each account has all the permissions required to call all APIs, but IAM users must be assigned the required permissions.

  • If you are using role/policy-based authorization, see Permissions Policies and Supported Actions for details on the required permissions.
  • If you are using identity policy-based authorization, no identity policy-based permission required for calling this API.

URI

POST /v5/{project_id}/antivirus/task

Table 1 Path Parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

project_id

Yes

String

Definition

Project ID, which is used to specify the project that an asset belongs to. After the project ID is configured, you can query assets in the project using the project ID. For details about how to obtain it, see Obtaining a Project ID.

Constraints

N/A

Range

The value can contain 1 to 256 characters.

Default Value

N/A

Table 2 Query Parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

enterprise_project_id

No

String

Definition

Enterprise project ID, which is used to filter assets in different enterprise projects. For details, see Obtaining an Enterprise Project ID.

To query assets in all enterprise projects, set this parameter to all_granted_eps.

Constraints

You need to set this parameter only after the enterprise project function is enabled.

Range

The value can contain 1 to 256 characters.

Default Value

0: default enterprise project.

Request Parameters

Table 3 Request header parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

X-Auth-Token

Yes

String

Definition

User token, which contains user identity and permissions. The token can be used for identity authentication when an API is called. For details about how to obtain the token, see Obtaining a User Token.

Constraints

N/A

Range

The value can contain 1 to 32,768 characters.

Default Value

N/A

region

No

String

Definition

Region ID, which is used to query assets in the required region. For details about how to obtain a region ID, see Obtaining a Region ID.

Constraints

N/A

Range

The value can contain 1 to 128 characters.

Default Value

N/A

Table 4 Request body parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

task_name

Yes

String

Definition

Task

Range

Each tag value can contain a maximum of 255 Unicode characters.

task_id

No

String

Task ID. When a virus scan task is created, task_id is null. When the task is re-executed, task_id is not null and is the ID of the current task.

scan_type

Yes

String

Definition

Job type

Range

Its value can be:

  • quick: quick scan

  • full: full disk scan

  • custom: custom scan

action

Yes

String

Definition

Action

Range

  • auto: automatic handling

  • manual: manual handling

host_ids

Yes

Array of strings

Policy management server list

Response Parameters

Status code: 200

Request succeeded.

None

Example Requests

Edit the virus scan task, set Task Type to Quick scan, Handling Action to Manual handling, and Server List to eab583a8-ff16-4b7a-aefc-e95ad3a78388.

{
  "task_name" : "Task",
  "scan_type" : "quick",
  "action" : "manual",
  "host_ids" : [ "eab583a8-ff16-4b7a-aefc-e95ad3a78388" ]
}

Example Responses

None

Status Codes

Status Code

Description

200

Request succeeded.

Error Codes

See Error Codes.