Brocade Network Advisor REST API Guide (Supporting Network Advisor 12.3.0) - Manual (Page 15)

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Chapter
1
Overview of the Network Advisor REST API
In this chapter
• Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
• Network Advisor URIs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
• Protocol support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
• Edition support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
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Introduction
The Network Advisor REST API provides you with a Web services interface for configuring and
monitoring Brocade switches. Brocade Network Advisor 12.3.0 has been updated to provide a
REST API for storage area network (SAN) provisioning. The REST APIs are organized into various
services such as Topology, Authentication, and Zoning.
You can use the Network Advisor REST API to build your own Network Advisor clients. You can also
use third-party REST API clients to interact with Network Advisor.
FIGURE 1 Architectural overview
The Network Advisor REST API provides GET and POST uniform resource identifiers (URIs) that you
can use to retrieve information and perform certain management and configuration tasks.
NOTE
This release of the Network Advisor REST API supports only SAN fabrics.