# importing the required libraries import requests import json import base64 import uuid import ssl # define parameters username = '<Automation UserID' password = '<Automation Password' url = "https://FQDN or Automation Dispatcher IP/Dispatcher/SchedulingService/Jobs" identifier = uuid.uuid4().hex message = 'Test in Progress with Python' # create basic authentication credentials = username + ":" + password # Encode with base64 base64_credentials = base64.b64encode(credentials.encode("utf8")) credential = base64_credentials.decode("utf8") # Configure the Payload/Body (JSON) payload = json.dumps({ "Description": " Send message API ", "When": { "ScheduledDataTime":"/Date(1631908263000}/", "Immediate": True, "IsLocalTime": True, "UseWakeOnLAN": False }, "What": [ { "ID": " 0D05A348-4574-4CAB-82F9-A5D3251457FD ", "Type": 0, "Name": " Send Message API " } ], "Who": [ { "ID": " 325282B6-2099-4FBB-B60B-38EC4F96E755 ", "Type": 0, "Name": " SB-IV-AM01 " }, { "ID": " 4FF6C7C2-4D63-47F7-AE28-CE8BDA0BA36D ", "Type": 0, "Name": " SB-IV-AM02 " } ], "Parameters": [{ "Identifier": identifier, "Type": 0, "TaskContainerGuid":" 0D05A348-4574-4CAB-82F9-A5D3251457FD ", "TaskContainerName":" Send Message API ", "JobGuid": "{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}", "JobName": "", "JobParameters": [{ "Name":"Caption", "Type":0, "Description":"", "Value1":"This is a test", "Hint":"Please provide the necessary input", "Selection":"" }, { "Name":"Message", "Type":0, "Description":"", "Value1": message, "Value2":"", "Value3":"", "Hint":"Please provide the necessary input", "Selection":"" }] }] }) # create the header headers = {} headers['Authorization'] = 'basic ' + credential headers['Content-Type'] = 'application/json' # Execute the webrequest to schedule the task response = requests.request("POST", url, headers=headers, data=payload) # Show the response. Not required but returns response during testing print(response.text)