# Get compliance status grouped by category (default profile)

Returns compliant and non-compliant device counts grouped by rule category.

## Endpoint

`GET /bsp/api/v1/bmp/compliance/category`

## Request

### Request URL

`https://`[{serverurl}](https://www.manageengine.com/products/desktop-central/help/api/cloud/oauth-authentication-endpoint-domain.html)`/bsp/api/v1/bmp/compliance/category`

### Scope

`DesktopCentralCloud.BrowserManager.READ`

### Header

`Authorization: Zoho-oauthtoken d92d4xxxxxxxxxxxxx15f52`

### Request Parameters

#### Request Headers

- **Accept** (`string`, Mandatory): `application/json`

## Sample Request

```curl
curl --request GET \
  --url https://appdomains/bsp/api/v1/bmp/compliance/category \
  --header 'Accept: application/json' \
  --header 'Authorization: Zoho-oauthtoken  d92d4xxxxxxxxxxxxx15f52'
```

## Response Parameters

### HTTP Code 200

Response Body — `application/json`

- `compliant` (`string`): Count of devices compliant for this category
- `noncompliant` (`string`): Count of devices noncompliant for this category

### HTTP Code 401

Response Body — `application/json`

- `errorCode` (`long`): Unauthorized error code: credentials missing, expired, or invalid
- `errorMsg` (`string`): Authentication failure reason

### HTTP Code 403

Response Body — `application/json`

- `errorCode` (`long`): Error code indicating insufficient permissions
- `errorMsg` (`string`): Message indicating insufficient privileges to access this resource

### HTTP Code 429

Response Body — `application/json`

- `errorCode` (`long`): Rate limit error code returned when the API call reached threshold
- `errorMsg` (`string`): Rate limit exceeded message with retry guidance

### HTTP Code 500

Response Body — `application/json`

- `error_description` (`string`): Message describing the server-side failure
- `error_code` (`string`): Internal server error code

## Possible Response Codes

- `200` — HTTP code
- `401` — HTTP code
- `403` — HTTP code
- `429` — HTTP code
- `500` — HTTP code

## Sample Responses

### HTTP 200

Category breakdown for the default profile

```json
{
  "Privacy": {
    "noncompliant": 20,
    "compliant": 140
  },
  "Security": {
    "noncompliant": 10,
    "compliant": 150
  }
}
```

### HTTP 401

Unauthorized

```json
{
  "errorCode": "UNAUTHORIZED",
  "errorMsg": "You are not authorized to perform this action"
}
```

### HTTP 403

Forbidden

```json
{
  "errorCode": "FORBIDDEN",
  "errorMsg": "You do not have permission to access this resource"
}
```

### HTTP 429

Rate limit exceeded

```json
{
  "errorCode": "RATE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED",
  "errorMsg": "You have exceeded the maximum number of API calls. Please try again later."
}
```

### HTTP 500

Server error

```json
{
  "error_description": "Internal Server error, Please try again in a moment.",
  "error_code": "COM0004"
}
```

## Rate Limiting

![](https://www.zohowebstatic.com/sites/zweb/images/people/ico-help.png)

**Duration:** 1 minute | **Threshold:** 60 | **Lock period:** 5 minutes

Duration — Time window for the threshold.  
Threshold — Number of API calls allowed within the specified duration.  
Lock Period — Wait time before consecutive API requests.