An Application Programming Interface (API) is a toolset that programmers and system developers can use to help them interact with other systems and deliver solid solutions fairly rapidly. An API defines the kinds of calls or requests that can be made, how to make them, the data formats that should be used, the conventions to follow, and the possible results.

Many of Firstwave's solutions include robust APIs that can be used to automate processes like pushing performance data into a Business Intelligence (BI) solution, creating events, and collecting device configurations.

The following APIs are available for use with each product:

Application API's

Common Admin

• Admin Nodes API
• System Admin Configuration API 

• Admin Outages API

• Configuration API

opCharts

• opCharts API Home Page
• opCharts REST API Reference - Fault and performance data
• opCharts Node Resource API - All the node details
• opCharts TopN API
• opCore API V1 - Node config/info/status
• opCore API V2 - Node config/info/status

• opCharts Enterprise Services API

opEvents

• opEvents REST API Reference; create or push events

opConfig

• opConfig User Manual

Open-AudIT

• The Open-AudIT API; pull inventory data

Using the API's

• Leveraging opCharts API with Python Scripts