Dell Systems Management Overview Guide

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iDRAC Restful APIs (Redfish Standards based)

iDRAC provides a range of standards-based applications programming interfaces (APIs) that enable scalable and automated management of the PowerEdge servers. Standard systems management APIs is developed by organizations such as the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF). These APIs are widely used by commercial systems management products and by custom programs and scripts that are developed by IT staff to automate management functions such as discovery, inventory, health status checking, configuration, update, and power management. The APIs supported by iDRAC include the following:

  • iDRAC RESTful API—It provides a RESTful interface that expands upon the DMTF Redfish standard with the Dell operations. It includes the RESTful server configuration, modular server feature support, and detailed operating system networking inventory and status.
  • iDRAC RESTful API—with Redfish support: In 2015, the DMTF Scalable platforms Management Forum published iDRAC RESTful API—with Redfish support. It is an open industry-standard specification and schema that is designed to meet the needs of IT administrators for simple, modern, and secure management of scalable platform hardware. Dell is a key contributor to the iDRAC RESTful API standard, acting as co-chair of the SPMF, promoting the benefits of iDRAC RESTful API, and working to deliver those benefits within industry-leading systems management solutions. iDRAC RESTful API is a next generation management standard using a data model representation inside a hypermedia RESTful interface. The data model is defined in terms of a standard, machine-readable schema, with the payload of the messages expressed in JSON and the OData v4 protocol.

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