DS Open Application Programming Interface
The DS Open Application Programming Interface (API) is a nonproprietary storage management client application that supports routine LUN management activities. Activities that are supported include: LUN creation, mapping and masking, and the creation or deletion of RAID 5, RAID 6, and RAID 10 volume spaces.
The DS Open API helps integrate configuration management support into storage resource management
(SRM) applications, which help you to use existing SRM applications and infrastructures. The DS Open
API can also be used to automate configuration management through customer-written applications.
Either way, the DS Open API presents another option for managing storage units by complementing the
use of the IBM® Storage Management GUI
web-based interface and the DS command-line interface.
Note: The DS Open API supports the storage
system and is an embedded component.
You can implement the DS Open API without using a separate middleware application. For example, you can implement it with the IBM Common Information Model (CIM) agent, which provides a CIM-compliant interface. The DS Open API uses the CIM technology to manage proprietary devices as open system devices through storage management applications. The DS Open API is used by storage management applications to communicate with a storage unit.