Rapid7

Rapid7 Scan Engine API

Resources and operations for managing scan engines.

GitHub OpenAPI
Business capability
Vulnerability Management BC-620.40

Operations 22

GET /api/3/scan_engine_pools Engine Pools #
POST /api/3/scan_engine_pools Engine Pools #
GET /api/3/scan_engine_pools/{id} Engine Pool #
PUT /api/3/scan_engine_pools/{id} Engine Pool #
DELETE /api/3/scan_engine_pools/{id} Engine Pool #
GET /api/3/scan_engine_pools/{id}/engines Engine Pool Engines #
PUT /api/3/scan_engine_pools/{id}/engines Engine Pool Engines #
PUT /api/3/scan_engine_pools/{id}/engines/{engineId} Engine Pool Engines #
DELETE /api/3/scan_engine_pools/{id}/engines/{engineId} Engine Pool Engines #
GET /api/3/scan_engine_pools/{id}/sites Engine Pool Sites #
GET /api/3/scan_engines Scan Engines #
POST /api/3/scan_engines Scan Engines #
GET /api/3/scan_engines/shared_secret Scan Engine Shared Secret #
POST /api/3/scan_engines/shared_secret Scan Engine Shared Secret #
DELETE /api/3/scan_engines/shared_secret Scan Engine Shared Secret #
GET /api/3/scan_engines/shared_secret/time_to_live Scan Engine Shared Secret Time to live #
GET /api/3/scan_engines/{id} Scan Engine #
PUT /api/3/scan_engines/{id} Scan Engine #
DELETE /api/3/scan_engines/{id} Scan Engine #
GET /api/3/scan_engines/{id}/scan_engine_pools Assigned Engine Pools #
GET /api/3/scan_engines/{id}/scans Scan Engine Scans #
GET /api/3/scan_engines/{id}/sites Scan Engine Sites #

Specifications

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OpenAPI Specification

rapid7-scan-engine-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  description: '# Overview


    This guide documents the InsightVM Application Programming Interface (API) Version 3.'
  version: '3'
  title: InsightVM Scan Engine API
  contact:
    name: Rapid7
    email: support@rapid7.com
servers:
- url: https://localhost:3780/
tags:


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# Full source: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/rapid7/refs/heads/main/openapi/rapid7-scan-engine-api-openapi.yml