Assuming that you want to automate and integrate your systems with OneOps using the REST interface, you should have a functional knowledge of what REST is and how a typical REST API functions. REST stands for REpresentational State Transfer. It is a web standards-based architecture where everything is represented as a resource, and it can be accessed using standard HTTP methods, such as GET, PUT, POST, and DELETE. Data is usually passed back and forth between the client and server in text, XML, or JSON. JSON is the preferred format lately.
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REST is a stateless protocol. This means that, between requests, no session is maintained. Hence, each request is self-contained and must contain all the state information required to fulfill that request.
Thus, using the REST architecture OneOps provides a set of RESTful web services that can be accessed using unique Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs).