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ThisappendixdescribestheADMAPIandexplainshowtoaccessanduseit.Topicsinclude:

 “A P I Features”onpage 59

 “WebServicesAPI”onpage 61

API Features

TheAPIofADMallowsclientstoqueryitsdatabaseandexportpartsofitbymeansofawebservicesAPI.

Thefollowingcasesareexplainedinthefollowingsections:

 WritingthesystemstatusintoanXMLoutputfile;“Insight_control”onpage 59.

 SynchronizationofCMDBapplicationswithdataofADM;“A s y n c h API”onpage 60.

 PopulationofthirdpartyapplicationswithdataofADM.

 DumpingofentiredatabasetablesanduploadingtoanFTPserver;“DumpAPI”onpage 60.

 Accesstofiltereddatabybulk(paginated);“BulkAPI”onpage 61.

YoucandividetheAPIintothreesections,wheretwoarededicatedtoqueryingtheADM(DumpandBulk),

andthethirdisinchargeoftrackingthosequeries(Asynch).

Insight_control

TheInsight_controlutilitywritesthesystemstatusintoanXMLoutputfile.

To run Insight_control utility

1Logintotheapplianceasuserroot.

2 Changethedirectorybytyping:

cd /home/nlayers/Seneca/management/APIs

3Typethefollowingcommandtogenerateasystemstatusoutputfile:

./InSight_control.sh systemstatus --get --output /tmp/systemstatus

Service Status

Servicestatuscanbe:

 Running:Theserviceisrunning.

 Disabled:TheADMintentionallystopstheservice.

 NotRunning(PurposelyStopped):Theservicewasstoppedintentionally,forexample,aservicewas

manuallystoppedbytheadm_control.pl --stopcommand.

ADM API Tutorial

NOTEYoucansubstituteadifferentfileandpathfor /tmp/systemstatus.

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