Data Flow Management Web Service API Overview

This section explains how third-party or custom tools can use the  Data Flow Management Web Service API to manage Data Flow.

The  Data Flow Management Web Service API is used to integrate applications with Universal CMDB. The API provides methods to:

  • Manage credentials. View, add, update, and remove.

  • Manage jobs. View status, activate, and deactivate.

  • Manage probe ranges. View, add, and update.

  • Manage triggers. Add or remove a trigger CI, and add, remove, or disable a trigger TQL.

  • View general data. Data on domains and probes.

Users of the  Data Flow Management Web Service should be familiar with:

  • The SOAP specification

  • An object-oriented programming language such as C++, C# or Java

  • Universal CMDB

  • Data Flow Management

Note  

  • A user must have the Run Legacy API general action permission in order to log in.
  • The logged-in user must have the Run Discovery and Integrations general action permission to access any of the methods.

For full documentation on the available operations, see Universal Discovery Schema Reference. These files are located in the following folder:

<UCMDB root directory>\UCMDBServer\deploy\ucmdb-docs\docs\eng\APIs\DDM_Schema\webframe.html