ICS has its own API that provides a range of REST services focused on the control and monitoring of ICS. The API provides a range of operations, from being able to deploy connections and integrations, to activating and deleting them, through to getting details of any errors: the monitoring metrics we saw in the previous chapter.
The details of the APIs can be obtained from the Oracle documentation online (https://docs.oracle.com/cloud/latest/intcs_gs/ICSRA/), which is also linked to the ICS tool itself. While the APIs lend themselves to extending your preferred enterprise monitoring tool, it is also very easy to build some basic management scripts through the use of tools such as cURL.
To illustrate this point, we are going to use the API to retrieve some information about an instance of ICS:
Retrieve the monitoring metrics so you can see the high-level stats regarding your environment. This is the sort of thing that could be your first step to incorporating ICS into the enterprise...