VAST Data dboxes API
A DBox is an NVMe-oF JBOF, otherwise known as a VAST enclosure, or an enclosure containing NVMe-oF controller cards and flash SSDs. The dboxes path represents the DBoxes in the cluster, exposes information about the DBoxes and maintenance operations. There are two types of DBoxes. The legacy type DBox has two DNodes. The CERES Dbox, newly introduced in some deployments, has two DTrays and four DNodes.
VAST Data dboxes API is one of 126 APIs that VAST Data publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include dboxes. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and SDKs.
This API exposes 10 operations across 8 paths, and defines 3 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.3, at version 1.0.
Requests are made against the base URL https://{vms-host}/api.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 2
VAST Data dboxes API declares
2 security schemes
for authenticating requests.
An API key is passed in the header as ApiToken (ApiToken).
It accepts HTTP basic authentication (basicAuth).
By default, every request must be authenticated.
ApiToken— Send current valid API token in an Authorization header with format Api-Token .basicAuth— Basic authentication using VMS user name and password
Paths & Operations 10
Across 8 paths, the API surfaces 10 operations — 1 DELETE, 2 GET, 3 PATCH, 4 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
A DBox is an NVMe-oF JBOF, otherwise known as a VAST enclosure, or an enclosure containing NVMe-oF controller cards and flash SSDs. The dboxes path represents the DBoxes in the cl…
Schemas 3
The contract defines 3 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are DBox (25 properties), ErrorResponse (1 property), AsyncTaskInResponse (1 property). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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