axcient-appliances

# Axcient Appliances ## Overview An appliance is the physical or virtual box running local backups for appliance-based devices (as opposed to direct-to-cloud devices, which have no appliance at all). Every appliance-based device belongs to exactly one appliance; D2C devices never appear under one. ## Anti-triggers - **A D2C-only device** — it has no appliance and won't appear in any appliance's device list. Use the `devices` skill directly. - **Vault capacity** — an appliance's local storage is separate from vault storage; see the `vaults` skill for replication-target capacity. ## Tools | Tool | Description | Arguments | |------|-------------|-----------| | `axcient_list_appliances` | Every appliance in the organization | `service_id?`, `include_devices?` | | `axcient_list_appliances_by_client` | Appliances for one client | `client_id`, `include_devices?` | | `axcient_get_appliance` | One appliance's detail | `appliance_id`, `include_devices?` | `include_devices` defaults to `true` on all three — pass `false` explicitly when you only need appliance-level fields and want a smaller response for a large fleet. ### Service ID Filtering `axcient_list_appliances` accepts an optional `service_id` — the appliance's 4-character serial/service identifier, useful when a technician has the physical unit's ID label in hand but not its `client_id`. ## Common Workflows ### Appliance Inventory for a Client 1. `axcient_list_appliances_by_client` with the client's ID 2. For eac...