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CA Performance Center Web Services

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 by means of web services.

Some of these APIs consist of RESTful web services. REST, or Representational State Transfer, refers to a method of structuring software for the World Wide Web or other applications that conform to the requirements of HTTP in client-server networks. The REST model lets you access a set of resources by means of a fixed set of operations. This model takes advantage of widely deployed HTTP features that are supported by common hardware, such as gateway devices.

The CA Performance Center RESTful web services can programmatically perform the following tasks:

• Create user accounts
• Create containers for MSP customer sites ("tenants")
• Load a list of groups from an XML file
• Create, edit, and delete SNMP profiles
• Create IP domain definitions and associate them with tenants
• Provide lists of all configuration items, such as custom user accounts, roles, or groups, that are already in the system

Additional APIs let you create custom data views and run custom database queries to gain access to precise data sets and build new dashboards. For more information, see the RIB API User Guide. And a SOAP API lets you change settings in the Single Sign-On authentication component.