Integrating with REST API

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External systems integration is one of the key features of License Metric Tool. Business logic is enabled for integration and interfaces are provided for common integration points.

Restriction: The database cannot be modified. The data can be retrieved only through REST API, not directly from the database.

Considerations

  • Although using single REST API requests to retrieve data only from a selected subset of computers does not greatly impact the performance of License Metric Tool, this is not true when retrieving data in bulk for all your computer systems at the same time. To improve the performance of a REST API, retrieve the data in chunks. For more information, see: REST API considerations.
  • Do not use REST API during the import as you might encounter a problem with the database connection. If the problem occurs, wait until the import finishes and ensure that the License Metric Tool server is up and running. Then, repeat the API call.