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Access Generic REST Web Services

Use generic REST web services for managing metric families and limited SNMP vendor certification support. Generic REST web services are self-filtering and do not use an argument within the URL to manage relationships.

The base URL for generic web services is:

http://hostname:port/genericWS

hostname:port

Specifies the Data Aggregator host name and the port number.

Default port: 8581

Access the following URLs in a browser to get detailed information about generic web services, including XSDs, URIs, supported HTTP methods, attributes, and relationships.

• To displays details about every user-facing, generic web service in the system:

  http://hostname:port/genericWS/
  

• To display details about the specified endpoint:

  http://hostname:port/genericWS/endpoint/documentation