Use Web Services to Manage Groups

Use Web Services to Manage Groups

Use Case for: CA Performance Center

2.4.1

OS: All Supported Operating Systems

CA Performance Center offers a set of APIs that let you automate provisioning and configuration tasks. The most frequently repeated or time-consuming tasks are exposed to you with web services. Some of these APIs consist of web services that conform to the Representational State Transfer (REST) model.

This use case illustrates procedures that an administrator can deploy to create and manage groups or collections using the CA Performance Center RESTful web services. You can add and delete multiple groups or subgroups. You can add items to groups and create group rules to populate groups. You can also export and import group definitions.

In this use case, we describe the steps to take when using a REST client, a generic web services user interface application. The examples in this use case contain URIs that are constructed using the default server port, 8181.