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Awesome!!!
We’ve been asking EMC for REST for years now.
Finally we are going to be able to automate our simple service request!
Just to add some more info on why REST API would be a lot better for automation than scripting with nsradmin commands.
The output!
With nsradmin you get plain text as output, you’ll have to parse it, work around all possibilities and exceptions of spaces, strange characters in the names, etc.
With REST API’s, you get objects. Objects that you can you use to iterate through the childobjects, variables, parameters, nodes,…