HP Intelligent Management Center Extended API User Guide

Contents
1 Quick Start..............................................................................................22
Welcome to iMC RESTful Web Services ....................................................................................22
The First iMC-RS Client............................................................................................................22
Preparations......................................................................................................................22
Verify iMC-RS availability....................................................................................................22
Create project...................................................................................................................23
Compile iMC-RS client codes...............................................................................................23
Run codes and view result...................................................................................................23
iMC-RS Security Mechanism.....................................................................................................24
Identification authentication.................................................................................................24
Verify iMC-RS availability....................................................................................................25
2 Client Access...........................................................................................26
Access iMC-RS Resources with Apache Commons HTTP Client 3.x................................................26
Access iMC-RS Resources with Apache HTTP Client 4.x...............................................................26
Access iMC-RS Resources with RestTemplate of SpringFramework 3.0............................................26
Access iMC-RS Resources with Jersey Client................................................................................26
Access iMC-RS Resources with Android SDK..............................................................................26
3 R&D References........................................................................................27
Interface Categories................................................................................................................27
Interfaces for accessing resources.........................................................................................27
Interfaces for registering and receiving real-time events...........................................................27
Real-Time Event Registration and Receipt....................................................................................27
Event registration...............................................................................................................27
Event receipt.....................................................................................................................28
Java client.........................................................................................................................29
Security control..................................................................................................................29
Conventions and Constraints....................................................................................................29
HTTP methods...................................................................................................................30
Content types and character encoding..................................................................................30
Status codes......................................................................................................................30
Wildcard characters supported in queries.............................................................................31
Data types and ranges.......................................................................................................31
Result set of multi-criteria batch queries..................................................................................31
Error Codes...........................................................................................................................31
FAQ......................................................................................................................................32
4 System Management.................................................................................33
Query All Operators...............................................................................................................34
Interface URI.....................................................................................................................34
Access Method..................................................................................................................34
Returned Result..................................................................................................................34
Example...........................................................................................................................35
Query Individual Operators.....................................................................................................36
Interface URI.....................................................................................................................36
Access Method..................................................................................................................36
Returned Result..................................................................................................................36
Example...........................................................................................................................38
Add Operator........................................................................................................................39
Interface URI.....................................................................................................................39
Access Method..................................................................................................................39
Returned Result..................................................................................................................39
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