HP iLO Restful API Specification

Overview

HP Gen9 Servers running iLO 4 2.00 or later feature a new management interface called the “HP RESTful API.” The HP RESTful API is a RESTful Web Service API served by iLO’s web server. If you are familiar with RESTful APIs, this should tell you much about how the API works. In short, a RESTful API is an application programming interface using the basic HTTP operations GET, PUT, POST, DELETE, and PATCH. Each HTTP operation either submits or returns a “resource” in the form of UTF-8 encoded JSON. Just as a Web application returns HTML to your browser, a REST interface returns data (in the form of JSON) to your client over the same transport (HTTPS).

Key Benefits of the HP RESTful API

This HP RESTful API will become the main management API for iLO 4 based HP Servers. Its feature set will (in time) become larger than the existing ILO XML API (RIBCL) and IPMI interfaces. Using this API you can take full inventory of the server, control power and reset, configure BIOS and iLO 4 settings, fetch event logs as well as many other things.

HP RESTful API Specifications

http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=c04423967