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Description

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Using this API you have the option of hard locking an Android device, where the Administrator permanently locks the device or screen locking an Android device.
Resource Path/lock
URL/mdm-android-agent/operation/lock
HTTP MethodPOST
Request/Response Formatapplication/json

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Sample request

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For information on the property value definitions, see Resource Definition for Common Android Operations
 

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cURL command
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curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Authorization: Bearer <EMM_API_TOKEN>" -d @'<JSON_PAYLOAD>' -k -v https://<EMM_HOST>:<EMM_HTTPS_PORT>/mdm-android-agent/operation/lock
  • For more information on how to generate the EMM API token, see Generating the OAuth 2.0 Access Token.
  • Define the path to the JSON file, which lists the devices that this operation is applied on, as the <JSON_PAYLOAD>  value.
  • By default, <EMM_HOST> is localhost. However, if you are using a public IP, the respective IP address or domain needs to be specified.
  • By default, <EMM_HTTPS_PORT> has been set to 9443. However, if the port offset has been incremented by n, the default port value needs to be incremented by n.
For example

Example:

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curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Authorization: Bearer 
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f409r4c55924rt4af9a44tts15y9d6cd56h1047d" -d @'test.json' -k -v https://localhost:9443/mdm-android-agent/operation/lock
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 Sample output
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> POST /mdm-android-agent/operation/lock HTTP/1.1
> Host: localhost:9443
> User-Agent: curl/7.
24.0 (x86_64-apple-darwin12.0) libcurl/7.24.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8| zlib/1.2.5 > Host: localhost:9443
43.0
> Accept: */*
> Content-Type: application/json
> Authorization: Bearer 
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f409r4c55924rt4af9a44tts15y9d6cd56h1047d
> Content-Length: 
23 >
21
< HTTP/1.1 201 Created
< Date: 
Wed
Fri, 
03
18 
Jun
Mar 
2015
2016 
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08:
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18:
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20 GMT
< Content-Length: 0
< Server: WSO2 Carbon Server
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Sample JSON Definition 
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{
  "operation": {
    "message": "This is a test message",
    "isHardLockEnabled": true
  },
  "deviceIDs": [
    "d8:50:e6:2f:6a:8b",
    "a5:60:e6:2g:6a:5b"
  ]
}

Property Value

Description

Data
Type
operationLists out the features of the device lock operation.-
messageProvide the message that needs to be sent out when locking the device.String

isHardLockEnabled

Define true as the value if you need to hard lock the device or define false as the value to screen lock the device.

Info

Using hard lock, the admin is able to lock the device permanently. If the device is locked permanently, the admin can unlock the device via the device unlock REST API.

Boolean

deviceIDs

ID of the Android device. Multiple device IDs can be added by using comma separated values. 
For more information on retrieving the device ID, see Retrieving the ID of an Android device.

String