How to use the REST API to request information

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How to use the REST API to gather information about the IBM Storage Archive Enterprise Edition system.

The following topics provide the information that you need to use the REST API.

The request URLs that you need are provided, and the response data that you receive is defined.

The REST API URLs accept additional parameters. For example, the following command displays only the information in the name and capacity fields of all pools. 
curl -XGET ’http://localhost:7100/ibmsa/v2/pools?pretty&fields=name,capacity’ -b cookies.txt
Status codes
  • 200 = Success
  • 400 = Bad request
  • 401 = Unauthorized
  • 404 = Not found
  • 500 = Server error

Any other status indicates that an error was detected.