Concept Guide

* About to connect() to 10.16.151.159 port 8008
* Trying 10.16.151.159... connected
* Connected to 10.16.151.159 (10.16.151.159) port 8008
* Server auth using Basic with user 'admin'
> PUT /api/running/dell/interfaces/interface/tengig-1-37 HTTP/1.1
> Authorization: Basic YWRtaW46YWRtaW4=
> User-Agent: curl/7.15.5 (i686-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.15.5 OpenSSL/0.9.8b zlib/1.2.3
libidn/0.6.5
> Host: 10.16.151.159:8008
> Accept: */*
> Content-Length: 171
> Expect: 100-continue
>
< HTTP/1.1 100 Continue
< Server: ConfD/5.2
< Allow: GET, POST, OPTIONS, HEAD
< Content-Length: 0
< HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
< Server: ConfD/5.2
< Cache-control: private, no-cache, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate
< Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 13:13:25 GMT
< Allow: GET, POST, OPTIONS, HEAD
< Content-Length: 0
< Content-Type: text/html
< Etag: 1417-698805-339353@0
* Connection #0 to host 10.16.151.159 left intact
* Closing connection #0
Following is the current running congurations applied on the system:
DellEMC#show running-config interface tengigabitethernet 0/0
!
interface TenGigabitEthernet 0/0
ip address 11.1.1.1/24
shutdown
DellEMC#
The following conguration retrieves the interface running-config via REST API.
curl -u admin:admin http://10.16.151.159:8008/api/running/dell/interfaces/interface/tengig-0-0\?
deep
<interface xmlns="http://www.dell.com/ns/dell:0.1/root" xmlns:y="http://tail-f.com/ns/rest"
xmlns:dell="http://www.dell.com/ns/dell:0.1/root">
<name>tengig-0-0</name>
<mtu>1554</mtu>
<shutdown>true</shutdown>
<ip>
<address>
<primary>
<address>11.1.1.1/24</address>
</primary>
</address>
</ip>
<speed>auto</speed>
<rate-interval>299</rate-interval>
</interface>
* Connection #0 to host 10.16.151.159 left intact
* Closing connection #0
The PDU structure for conguring BGP on the Router 1 is as follows:
cat BGP_HTTP_REST_POST_PDU.xml
<bgp>
<as-name>100</as-name>
<neighbor>
<neighbor-router>11.1.1.2</neighbor-router>
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