Introduction

In the commands below:

  • Syntax for using the curl tool is shown. Other tools may also be used to communicate with the RESTful appliance API, such as the Postman app.
  • <c_interface> is the IP address of the appliance communication (C) interface.
  • <password> is the password for the appliance admin account.

    The appliance API requires basic authentication to enable communication between the client and the appliance.

  • The available language codes (<lang_code>) are:
Code Language Code Language
de German ja Japanese
en English pt_BR Portuguese
es Spanish zh_CN Simplified Chinese
fr French zh_TW Traditional Chinese
it Italian    
Note: Some versions of cURL require passwords with special characters to be enclosed in quotes (“<password>”) and properly escaped.