Administrator Guide

The Dell Storage enclosure ReST API

The Server Hardware Management software v1.2 added support for the Representational State Transfer

(ReST) API. The ReST service is accessible from a client device and from a Web browser. ReST access is

enabled by default.

The Dell storage enclosures support the following ReST operations:

• Device inventory using the GET commands available in the Server Hardware Management Command-

Line Interface (SHMCLI)

• Device actions:

– Updating firmware

– Validating firmware

– Blinking a drive

– Turning off a drive

Figure 8. Storage enclosure ReST queries are built into the device hierarchy

Accessing the ReST service

The base URL for a ReST request is in the following format:

http://<host>:<port>/api/<Program_Space>/<version>