Accessing the API server

To send web service requests to the API server, you must know the server's URL and have the appropriate permissions to access it.

URL

You or your cloud administrator can find the URL for the API server in the Configuration workspace next to the Cloud Service URL heading. To learn how to access the Configuration workspace, see Setting Configuration workspace options.

Permissions

In general, you must have cloud administrator permissions to use the API. However, users with cloud organization administrator or cloud end user permissions can use some APIs. If you are a cloud organization administrator or cloud end user, you can use the following guidelines to determine whether a particular API is available to you:

• If you can perform an action from the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management Tenant Administration Console or the My Cloud Services Console, you can use the corresponding API.
• If you can see an object in the Tenant Administration Console or the My Cloud Services Console, you can perform an action on the object by using the corresponding API.

Contact your cloud administrator to obtain a user name and password for an account with cloud administrator privileges. If you already have an account, your cloud administrator can grant you cloud administrator permissions by following the steps in Updating an existing user account with cloud administrator permissions.