Dell Systems Management Overview Guide

OpenManage RESTful APIs

There is a strong need for well-supported APIs for minimizing or eliminating human errors from operational processes which drive innovation since it reduces TCO and frees up resources, for rapid scale up and down of the infrastructure based on the organizational needs by creating replicable scripting and DevOps, for integrating new solutions to the existing ones and also managing a heterogenous HW environment.

To achieve this flexibility, scalability, consistency, and unified experience OpenManage products support northbound RESTful APIs.

The embedded management APIs or the iDRAC APIs are conformant to the Redfish DMTF standards and are responsible for automating end to end server management functionalities. Other value-added capabilities like Telemetry streaming, and Server configuration Profiles use the Dell proprietary RESTful APIs.

The console APIs for OpenManage Enterprise and all the plugins to OpenManage Enterprise like the PowerManager Plugin or the OpenManage Enterprise Services Plugin or the Update Manager Plugin and also the OpenManage Enterprise Modular and OMIVV products are modeled after the Redfish standards and are Dell proprietary RESTful APIs.

For more information, see the Developer portal.