SBOM Core / concept
Uploading Software Bill of Materials files using a REST API
Review the following information prior to uploading Software Bill of Materials files using an API.
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REST API Explorer / concept
Debug in-bound REST queries
You can debug in-bound REST queries by reviewing the session debug log.
Web Services / concept
Analyze REST and SOAP API usage
REST and SOAP API analytics allow you to track and analyze web service API usage.
Web Services / task
View REST & SOAP API analytics
View overall API analytics, analytics per API, or analytics per requesting user in the REST & SOAP API Analytics dashboard.
Discovery and Service Mapping Patterns / task
Create an alias for the API key credential for Fortinet firewall REST-based discovery
Create an alias and add it to an API key credential to discover Fortinet firewalls and FortiGate Virtual Domains (VDOMs) through REST-based discovery.
REST API Explorer / task
View path-based ACLs
Path-based Access Control Levels (ACLs) enable you to define access control rules for scripted REST API endpoints using their resource path. This can be done independently of the ACL references on the operation record.
Dispute Management / task
Set up the API REST message
Configure the API REST message for your integration. This step points outbound REST messages to the correct tokenizer service endpoint.
Web Services / concept
Outbound REST with OAuth 2.0 profile tutorial - integrating with Google Contacts API
This tutorial explains how to use an OAuth 2.0 profile to authenticate an outbound REST message with Google to retrieve contact information.
REST API Explorer / task
Define an API resource response structure
Add a schema and relevant response headers to a REST response to define the response's expected data structure.
REST API Explorer / task
Define an API resource request structure
Add a schema to a REST request record to define the request's expected data structure.
REST API Explorer / task
Automatically generate API request definitions
Use sample requests made to an API resource to generate request header associations, query parameter associations, and a request schema for that resource.
REST API Explorer / task
Associate a request header with a resource
Define which request headers are expected for each resource within a scripted REST API.
REST APIs / concept
User Role Inheritance API
The User Role Inheritance API provides endpoints that allow you to see the roles that a specific user inherited.Returns a specified user's granted and inherited roles.
Authentication / task
Configure API key - Token-based authentication
Configure an API key to support authentication for REST API endpoints.
MetricBase / concept
Retrieving MetricBase data using REST and JavaScript
Use JavaScript or REST APIs to insert and retrieve time-series data from the MetricBase database and to run transforms on the data. The transformations enable you to visualize time-series data in a variety of ways.
REST APIs / concept
Push Installation API
The Push Installation API provides endpoints to register and unregister the tokens that enable mobile devices to receive push notifications from an application.Adds or updates tokens that enable devices to receive push notifications from the specified application.Deactivates…
Web Services / concept
Outbound REST web service
ServiceNow outbound REST functionality allows you to retrieve, create, update, or delete data on a web services server that supports the REST architecture.
Application development
application-development/automated-test-framework-atf/atf-use-rest-retrieve-incident.md
--- title: Automated Test Framework use case: retrieve an incident using REST-Inbound description: The Get Newly Created Resource via REST API Test test is provided with the Automated Test Framework, and uses the REST - Inbound and assert steps.
Virtual Agent / task
Configure output response REST endpoint and outbound authentication for the Virtual Agent API \(v4.1 or above\)
Specify the outbound endpoint URL to which the Virtual Agent responses are posted. Configure outbound authentication.
REST API Explorer / task
Associate query parameters with a resource
Associate scripted REST API query parameters with a resource.
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