Configuration Via Scripting; Rest - Cisco C880 M5 Configuration Manual

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Configuration via scripting

The iRMC S5 supports APIs (Application Programming Interface) for scripted
configuration. With scripting only one iRMC has to be configured according to the
requirements of the environment. This configuration is then uploaded to all other
C880 M5 servers without the need to access them all one by one.
RESTful
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Representational state transfer is a way to provide interoperability between
computer systems on the internet. REST-compliant web services allow requesting
systems to access and manipulate textual representations of web resources using
a uniform and predefined set of stateless operations.
Redfish
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Redfish is a DMTF standard specification and schema that specifies a RESTful
interface. It utilizes a range of IT technologies that have been selected because of
their widespread use. These technologies create a new foundation from which
servers can be managed using common programming and scripting languages,
such as Python, Java and C.
SCCI
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The Server Control Command Interface is a generic API defined by Cisco for
different server management controller hardware as well as software. It can be
easily extended to new commands or to new configuration items.
The system report of the iRMC provides information about the current settings and
hardware fittings.
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REST

REST (Representational State Transfer) is a resource-oriented architecture (ROA)
style that describes how web standards can be used in a web-compatible manner,
thus increasing the reusability, extensibility, clarity, and simple integration of external
systems into an existing network structure of web services. In order to use the web
browser to navigate from one resource to another, REST requires simple, clear,
uniform interfaces. It is therefore necessary to comply with certain specifications and
be constrained by a particular set of access methods (e.g. HTTP methods).
REST represents an alternative to web services that are based on a service-oriented
architecture (SOA). If web services use the REST architecture, they are known as
RESTful APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) or REST APIs. Unlike SOAP-
based web services, there are no "official" standards for RESTful APIs. The reason
for this is that REST is an
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