How to use the DCO REST API?

[DCIM_Support]

Hi team:

    I'm using the DCO offline demo 8.0 to do development, I want to get information of the datacenter such as assets of customer ,  display of the sensors in the rack...which I can see in the client, when I use  https:///api/current  I have some troubles.

such as I want to see the assets of a customer, I need to fill the blank in the red retc, but how can i get or set the id? I tried username but the response is wrong. In other api asset-id,room-id...are needed,where can i find the id?   Is there some examples for the using of api? I'm a newbie.

Looking forward to your answer.

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[DCIM_Support · Accepted solution]

Hi Ren

Under the customer webservice, please take a look at the first GET method. The method gets all the customers the current user has access to. In the response you can then see the customer-id - which is typically a number.

An example reply:

[ { "id": "110", "company": "Some company name", "department": "110", "customerType": "EXTERNAL_CUSTOMER", "contact": null, "phoneNumber": null, "tenantPortalState": "NOT_ACTIVATED", "technicalContact": { "name": null, "email": null } } ]

So here the customer-id is 110.

Hope this helps.

Best,

Niels

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[DCIM_Support]

Thanks for your answer, it helps me a lot. I have another question, can I get the detail information of the server in the DC, such as the temperature & the power consumption of a server ? if it can be, what should i do? hoping your answer. Best,

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[DCIM_Support]

Can i got these information from the RESTful API ? if not ,what can i do? Please show me an example,thank you. Best Regards.

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[DCIM_Support]

Hi Ren, sorry I didn't see the comments here. Will answer you in the new question you posted.

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[DCIM_Support]

Here is a video tutorial Introduction to REST API

To get 'customer-id' you could use GET customers, which will list all customers accessible to the current user.

https://dcimsupport.apc.com/DCOAPIdoc/#!/customers/getCustomers

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[DCIM_Support]

Thanks for your answer, it helps me a lot. I have another question, can I get the detail information of the server in the DC, such as the temperature & the power consumption of a server ? if it can be, what should i do? Are these information gotten from the restful api ? Please show me an example, thanks. hoping your answer. Best,

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[DCIM_Support]

To get the ids required by specific operations you first need to query the operations that provide the required ids.

You can get the customer-id by querying the /customers GET operation.

The asset-id and room-id you can get from the /asset GET operation or the /assets/search GET operation. 

The response from the queries depends on your permissions.

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[DCIM_Support]

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