4.4. Using Extended Searches

You can use the web UI to determine other search terms that you can use to construct your queries. Satellite 6 supports scoped search and tab completion to make this task easier.
For example, to search for hosts by their operating system, navigate to Hosts → All Hosts and click inside the Search text box to display a list of search terms. One of the search terms for operating systems is os_description, which you can use in your API query as follows: 
$ curl -s -k -u sat_username:sat_password https://satellite6.example.com/api/v2/hosts?search=os_description=\"RHEL+Server+6.6\" | python -m json.tool
  {
    ...
    "results": [
        {
            "name": "satellite6.example.com",
            "operatingsystem_id": 1,
            "operatingsystem_name": "RHEL Server 6.6",
            ...
        }
    ],
    "search": "os_description=\"RHEL Server 6.6\"",
}