The Depot Manager does not synchronize immediately the metadata of the newly added online and UMDS depots. If you want to force the synchronization and not wait for the scheduled synchronization to take place,

use the

POST https://

<vcenter_ip_address_or_fqdn>

/api/esx/settings/depots?action=sync&vmw-task=true

request.

. You can also define a custom schedule to sync the metadata from the currently configured online or UMDS depots.

To create a custom schedule for checking for new software updates, you must first define the schedule parameters by using the

SyncSchedule.Schedule

data structure.

. Then you can add the schedule to the schedule specification by using the

SyncSchedule.Spec

data structure.

. Optionally, you can use the schedule specification to add an email to which notifications will be sent and define whether updates will be downloaded automatically. To apply the custom schedule,

use the

PUT https://

<vcenter_ip_address_or_fqdn>

/api/esx/settings/depots/sync-schedule

request and submit the

SyncSchedule.Spec

JSON object in the request body

.

The default schedule is set to update the metadata daily at a random time. To reset the schedule to the default settings,

use the

PUT https://

<vcenter_ip_address_or_fqdn>

/api/esx/settings/depots/sync-schedule

and leave the

SyncSchedule.Spec

data structure unset.

.