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Fabric Manager Web Services

This chapter describes the Fabric Manager Web Services (FMWS) application program interface (API).
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About Fabric Manager Web Services

The Cisco Fabric Manager Web Services (FMWS) enables third-party vendors to access Fabric Manager
core software functionalities as remote procedure calls. Web Services extend the World Wide Web
infrastructure to provide a method to softwares connecting to other software applications. Applications
access Web Services using many protocols and data formats such as HTTP, HTTPS, XML, and SOAP.
Web Services combine the best aspects of component-based development and the web. Web Services
makes Fabric Manager an enterprise class application allowing it to be interoperable with other software
platforms.
This chapter defines the APIs exposed by the Fabric Manager Web Services feature.

Web Services Specifications

Web Services specifications compose together to provide interoperable protocols for security,
communication and syntax for representing data.
OL-17256-03, Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 4.x
About Fabric Manager Web Services, page 69-1
Web Services Specifications, page 69-1
Logon Service, page 69-2
San Service, page 69-4
Service Endpoint Interface (SEI), page 69-4
Methods, page 69-4
Error Codes, page 69-15
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