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If you don't have installed valid certificates you will need to add -k to curl to make it accept self signed certificates. This curl command should return a result with status success but no data.

Before adding the dist devices you must make the API pull from the templates and settings repositories:

curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $JWT_AUTH_TOKEN" https://localhost/api/v1.0/repository/templates -d '{"action": "refresh"}' -X PUT -H "Content-Type: application/json"
curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $JWT_AUTH_TOKEN" https://localhost/api/v1.0/repository/settings -d '{"action": "refresh"}' -X PUT -H "Content-Type: application/json"

If there's any syntax files in settings you need to fix them and then run the refresh command again.

You then need to add your distribution switches with data similar to this:

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