More Information about ‘Custom Interfaces’ – Third-Party Systems interfacing

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Hi all,

I was looking for an option to integrate DataMiner with a third-party application whose goal is to fetch multiple sets of data from DataMiner.

I found an article in the docs Third-Party Systems interfacing - DataMiner Dojo that mentions web services and custom interfaces.

Using web services implies having an external workflow to identify which elements and data we need, and I was investigating a simpler way to fetch such information (aybe moving this external workflow to inside DataMiner would be simpler).

Since there's not much information about custom interfaces, what would be some example use cases for this feature, could it be helpful to simplify the interaction with DataMiner and where can I find more information about it?

Thanks in advance.

Pedro Carmo [SLC] Selected answer as best 10th May 2022

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Hi Pedro, you have the option to dynamically deploy your own custom APIs on the DataMiner side so the external applications can leverage more targeted calls to get to the datasets you need.

It might still be in softlaunch (?), can't find much about it in docs, but I've seen a few cases used in production.

here's an example with a single call creating a full event in Jobs manager Production Event Management (2) – ingest production data from third-party systems (DataMiner user-definable APIs) - DataMiner Dojo

There's another one where the external system sends a call only with the customer ID to retrieve live and historic data of all systems servicing a customer from headend, through access infrastructure, to subscriber equipment.

Pedro Carmo [SLC] Selected answer as best 10th May 2022
Pedro Carmo [SLC] commented

Hi Bruno,

Thanks for sharing this information, after investigating the provided link I was able to find more info about user-defined APIs, which fits perfectly in my use case.