Postman collections for DellEMC's storage products' REST APIs
This IaC Avengers' project leverages Postman's import collection capabilities to provide sample API calls for the following products:
- PowerMax
- PowerStore
- PowerFlex (formerly ScaleIO and VxFlex)
- VPLEX - this collection has been kindly contributed by Ankur Patel
- ECS management and ECS S3 API - these two collections are courtesy of Christopher Jenkins
- Unity
- XtremIO
- SC (Compellent)
- iDRAC Redfish
- Connectrix Brocade switches
- PowerOne (tested only with the PowerOne simulator)
The goal of the project is to help customers of these products to automate day 1 and day 2 operations by looking at handy examples. API reference guides can sometimes be many hundreds of pages, so by looking at some of the most common operational examples one can kickstart coding efforts. Each collection aims to provide sample calls in these areas:
- Gather system and hardware information
- Basic provisioning
- Performance and event collection
Where possible, API calls in these collections have been provided with a sample response so that developers can more easily see what fields are relevant for their purpose and help fast tracking the coding effort, even if they don't have access to a real array
For more details about the Project Vision and its deliverables visit the following blog posts http://anzpiper.blogspot.com/2019/12/postman-collections-for-dellemc-block.html http://anzpiper.blogspot.com/2020/01/project-vision-in-action.html
The following table shows the different environment parameters that are required for each collection
| Array | Variable | Variable | Variable |
|---|---|---|---|
| XtremIO | ip | pwd | |
| Unity | ip | pwd | csrfToken |
| PowerMax/VMAX | ip | pwd | serial |
| PowerFlex | ip | pwd | token |
| PowerStore | ip | pwd | token |
| SC | ip | pwd | |
| iDRAC Redfish | ip | pwd | |
| Brocade | ip | pwd | authkey |
| PowerOne | token |
For details on the environment requirement for the two ECS collections please visit Chris Jenkins's repo
If you are interested in automating products the Dell's Data Protection portfolio such as Networker, Data Domain, Avamar and more you can visit Raghava Jainoje's repo. He has provided Postman collections for those products