Creating a Custom Vendor Certification › Import a Custom Vendor Certification

Import a Custom Vendor Certification

To put your vendor certification into effect, import it into Data Aggregator. There are two ways to import a vendor certification:

• Use a REST Client to Import a Custom Vendor Certification.
• Use the Custom Vendor Certification Installer

Use a REST Client to Import a Custom Vendor Certification

Use any REST client to import a vendor certification. We recommend using the RESTClient to perform GET, POST, PUT, and other methods to the RESTful web services within CA Performance Management. If you do not have it installed, you can get the RESTClient GUI JAR file from http://code.google.com/p/rest-client/.

When using the RESTClient, consider the following information:

• To launch it, double-click the JAR file.
• When you POST XML, make sure that the Charset is set to UTF-8.

  To view and verify this setting, click the Edit Content-Type & Charset button.

• You can also auto-indent the Response Body, as follows:
  1. Click Options on the Tools menu.
  2. Select the Etc. tab.
  3. Select Auto-indent Response Body and click OK.

Follow these steps:

1. Enter http://da-hostname:8581/typecatalog/certifications/snmp as the URL.
2. Select POST on the Method tab.
3. Select 'application/xml' as the 'Body Content-type' in the Body settings.

   Important! Failing to set the Content-type results in a 404 error.

4. Copy and paste your custom vendor certification XML into the Body tab.
5. Run the method.

   Your vendor certification is imported. If no errors occur, the Status field in the HTTP Response section displays:

   HTTP/1.1 200 OK
   

   Note: Any other return code indicates that an error occurred while updating your custom component. Fix the error and retry updating the component by doing another POST.

   Important! To avoid possible data loss, always back up your deploy directory each time you create or update a vendor certification, metric family, or component.