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For these worked examples, we will use PowerShell scripting tools, as PowerShell is installed as part of Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2016 without any additional prerequisites or requirements other than the base operating system. It should be noted that other scripting languages or even compiled languages can also be used to interact with the RestAPI. In the introductory RestAPI series, some of the worked examples are given in PHP and Python as well as in PowerShell.
Note that, as these are longer scripts with slightly more complex logic than the initial tutorial scripts they are expected to either be used "as is" with only the user/password/server updated for the customer environment, or used as the basis upon which the customer's own developers can build custom scripts in PowerShell or other scripting languages. It is not expected that anyone other than a developer would make substantial changes to these scripts.
Pre-requisites:
In order to use these scripts in your environment, you will need
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These examples are derived using the RestAPI as it was deployed with the Gwynn R3 release of iQSonar. The YAML specification of the RestAPI endpoints (including which fields are available, and which fields are required (therefore always present) or optional (therefore not always present) in a given endpoint can be accessed using the RestAPI Endpoint /api/v1/yaml |
- OutputDevices - the OutputDevices report in V3 of iQSonar returns core information on all scanned devices and the associated virtualization information.