Ds Open Application Programming Interface; Restful Api - IBM DS8880 Series Introduction And Planning Manual

DS8000 Storage Management GUI. The DS CLI client can also be installed on and
is supported in many different environments, including the following platforms:
v AIX 6.1, 7.1, 7.2
v Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux [RHEL] 6 and 7
v Linux, SUSE Linux, Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 and 12
v VMware ESX 5.5, 6 Console
v IBM i 7.1, 7.2
v Oracle Solaris 10 and 11
v Microsoft Windows Server 2008, 2012 and Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10
Note: If the storage system is configured for NIST SP 800-131A security
conformance, a version of Java that is NIST SP 800-131A compliant must be
installed on all systems that run DS CLI client. For more information about
security requirements, see documentation about configuring your environment for
NIST SP 800-131A compliance in IBM Knowledge Center (https://www.ibm.com/
support/knowledgecenter/ST5GLJ_8.5.0/com.ibm.storage.ssic.help.doc/
f2c_securitybp_nist.html).

DS Open Application Programming Interface

The DS Open Application Programming Interface (API) is a nonproprietary storage
management client application that supports routine LUN management activities.
Activities that are supported include: LUN creation, mapping and masking, and
the creation or deletion of RAID 5, RAID 6, and RAID 10 volume spaces.
The DS Open API helps integrate configuration management support into storage
resource management (SRM) applications, which help you to use existing SRM
applications and infrastructures. The DS Open API can also be used to automate
configuration management through customer-written applications. Either way, the
DS Open API presents another option for managing storage units by
complementing the use of the IBM Storage Management GUI web-based interface
and the DS command-line interface.
Note: The DS Open API supports the storage system and is an embedded
component.
You can implement the DS Open API without using a separate middleware
application. For example, you can implement it with the IBM Common
Information Model (CIM) agent, which provides a CIM-compliant interface. The
DS Open API uses the CIM technology to manage proprietary devices as open
system devices through storage management applications. The DS Open API is
used by storage management applications to communicate with a storage unit.

RESTful API

The RESTful API is an application on the DS8000 HMC for initiating simple
storage operations through the Web.
The RESTful (Representational State Transfer) API is a platform independent
means by which to initiate create, read, update, and delete operations in the
storage system and supporting storage devices. These operations are initiated with
the HTTP commands: POST, GET, PUT, and DELETE.
The RESTful API is intended for use in the development, testing, and debugging of
DS8000 client management infrastructures. You can use the RESTful API with a
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