Hi, I am new in ARIS. I have been working with MS Team Foundation Server as a SDLC tool, and a customer of mine uses ARIS IT Inventory. He wants to then integrate both. It seems that ARIS API is the way of getting that. We could use the API to expose a set of web services to be consumed by a service that understand TFS in order to get information and write information into ARIS. Is that possible? Where can I find more information about how to do that? Thank you.
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Hi,
Sorry for a late post, :)
But, I had a similar issue, with client requesting a pure SOAP integration web-service to call from external app.
The idea is basically the same as Jonas describes. It took some time to develop the service that in the end encapsulates the report calls and reads and writes data to ARIS, but it was worth it at the end.
It makes sense if you will have some more similar scenarios, as this solution is quite extensable:
http://www.cumulusit.hr/wp/?page_id=226
Please let me know if you are interested in this solution. I'll be glad to give more info.
KR
Nikola
Hi Nikola,
Maybe too late to be replying to your post, but could you help me in this regards. We are trying to integrate ARIS & Troux and would like to use ARIS REST APIs.
Any inputs would be highly helpful.
Regards,
Kaushik Mishra
Dear Kaushik,
ARIS RESTful API is available since ARIS 9.8 SR2 via http://localhost/apidocs. It comes via Swagger based documentation. Means, the above URL outlines all API functions and can be used to test the ARIS API.
Cheers
Rune
Dear Rune,
I have ARIS Connect Server Access Infrastructure license key for ARIS 9.8.
Please, explain what it means (from http://localhost/apidocs):
"The token must be included in all subsequent API calls as URL parameter (umcsession) or added as cookie to the HTTP request.
POST http:// <servername:port>/umc/api/tokens?tenant=default&name=system &password=manager&key=lsjflskjfsfj
The parameter key is the string representation of an X.502 certificate."
Where I can get value of a parameter key?
Regards, Vladimir.
Jonas Ekstrom on
Hi Alexandre,
Maybe I can help to guide you in some direction.
First, there is unfortunately no API to the outside world in the sense of a linked library or COM object to use. You have to go by ARIS built-in script engine from where you can access an API. You also have to execute those scripts in the client application - not server side. The scripts can be accessed and called from the outside using 'scriptrunner' and a configuration file. The scriptrunner can pass in parameters using the configuration file to the script and from the script make use of the API to read and write data in the ARIS repository. If you need to pass data back to the consumer, you have to write the result to a file from the script and then make use of it from the service implementation. Hope this gives you an idea. Here are some useful links:
http://www.ariscommunity.com/users/eva-klein/2010-04-27-aris-scripting-tutorials
http://www.ariscommunity.com/users/shyoo/2011-03-02-how-implement-automatic-business-publisher-update