Reference: Deployment option value formats - BlueCat Address Manager - 9.2.0

Address Manager API Guide
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English
Product name
BlueCat Address Manager
Version
9.2.0

The input and output value formats for deployment option API methods.

Example deployment option value formats

DNS and DHCP deployment options value formats follow similar sets of rules. The following table outlines examples of the different value rules sets:
Value type Description Value format Example deployment option
Single value A single value provided. 
first
 forwarding-policy
Multiple value Multiple values that are separated by commas. 
1.1.1.1,2.2.2.2
 allow-notify
Two-dimensional values A two-dimensional array that is contained within braces and separated by commas. The values within each set are also separated by commas. 
{grant,test,subdomain, sub.domain.com,ANY} , {grant,test2,self, domain.com,ANY}
Note: If configuring an update-policy with Custom resource record types, the resource record types are separated by spaces. The following example displays the value format: 
{grant,test,subdomain, sub.domain.com,NS MF} , {grant,test2,self, domain.com,ANY}
 update-policy

DNS deployment option value format exception

When performing an add operation of deployment options, the value input is in double quotation marks (""). For example, adding a Lame TTL DNS deployment option with a value of "300" using the addDNSDeploymentOption API method to Address Manager would look similar to the following:

Input
long optId = service.addDNSDeploymentOption(100977, DNSOptions.LAME_TTL, "300", "");

Similarly, retrieving a Lame TTL DNS deployment option with a value of "300" using the getDeploymentOptions API method would return values similar to the following:

Output
{
  "id": 100977,
  "type": "DNS",
  "name": "lame-ttl",
  "value": "300",
  "properties": "inherited=false|"
}

Exception - When performing an add, update, or get API call with the Root Hints (CACHE) DNS deployment option, the value input is in double quotation marks and braces ("{}"). For example, adding a Root Hint DNS deployment option with a specified name value of "admin.corp" and IP address of 172.25.19.53 using the addDNSDeploymentOption API method would look similar to the following:

Input
long optId = service.addDNSDeploymentOption(100977, DNSOptions.CACHE, "{admin.corp,172.25.19.53}","");

Similarly, retrieving a Root Hint DNS deployment option with a specified name value of "admin.corp" and IP address of 172.25.19.53 using the getDeploymentOptions API method would return values similar to the following:

Output
{
  "id": 100977,
  "type": "DNS",
  "name": "cache",
  "value": "{admin.corp,172.25.19.53}",
  "properties": "inherited=false|"
}
Note: When adding a Root Hint DNS deployment option with the value of "Auto", the value defined in the add API method must be empty double quotation marks and braces ("{}"). Similarly, when performing a get API method of DNS deployment options where the Root Hint has a value of "Auto", the value returned is empty double quotation marks and braces ("{}").