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API Description

notification View and send notifications

oganization, orgInformation View and modify organization information

process instance View execution results from HP Operations Orchestration

flows

search Find specified information in CSA artifacts

user View information related to CSA users

utilization View resource utilization information for a subscription

Retrieving Information from HPCSA 4.00 using

RESTful calls

Let's look more closely now at the preparation for and execution of HPCSA RESTful APIcalls.

Communication with CSA

Solution developers communicate with CSA over http or https and parse the data structures

returned by CSA. The default port for communication with CSA 4.00 is port 8444.

Consumption API data is returned in JSON format. Legacy API data can be returned in either XML

or JSON format. You need to set the http headers Content-Type:application/xml or

application/json, and accept:application/xml or accept:application/json as appropriate

for the call you're making.

Authentication with an integration account

Authentication is handled using HTTP basic authentication. The authentication value is provided in

the API call via the Authorization header. The default credentials for the identity service’s transport

user which can be used in making Consumption API calls are user = ‘idmTransportUser’ and

password = ‘idmTransportUser’. The default credentials for the identity service’s transport user

which can be used in making Consumption API calls are user = ‘csaTransportUser’ and password

= ‘csaTransportUser’. The CSA Administrator can create multiple transport users if he/she so

chooses.

When exercising an API call from an HTTP client or from the interactive API content, this

Authorization header is automatically generated using the credentials you supply when you log into

CSA as will be required to get permission to make RESTful calls.

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