ASMS API reference

AlgoSec Security Management Suite offers access to many features via web services, which are APIs that can be accessed and executed over the network. Web service APIs enable you to perform remote operations in ASMS without using the product interface directly.

Web service APIs are supported via REST for AFA, FireFlow, and AppViz, and via SOAP for AFA and FireFlow. In general, REST services are more advanced and are recommended for use over SOAP.

ASMS Swagger documentation

ASMS provides a set of Swagger API documentation, available from inside ASMS.

Swagger enables you to execute API request calls and access lists of request parameters. Access the ASMS Swagger API documentation using one of the following methods:

From inside ASMS

From AFA, FireFlow, or AppViz, do the following:

  1. In the toolbar, click your username and click API Documentation.
  2. Click the links to access Swagger documentation for REST APIs.
Directly from your browser

Log in to ASMS, and navigate to https://<ASMS IP address>/algosec/swagger/swagger-ui.html.

In Swagger, select the spec for the APIs you want to view from the drop-down at the top-right.

Watch a quick tour of our Swagger below:

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ASMS API Tech Docs reference

Both REST and SOAP APIs are also documented in the Tech Docs. For details, see:

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Device names in the ASMS APIs

ASMS API parameter names and descriptions use the following terms to refer to devices managed by ASMS:

  • display name
  • entity name

The device's name, as displayed in the UI, both at the bottom level of the device tree, and in other ASMS pages and reports.

This name is not necessarily unique, and is therefore not recommended for use via API.
  • tree name
  • treeName
  • name
  • unique name
  • database name
  • canonized name

A name for the device that includes an aggregated string of the device's name and the name of any parent or grandparent devices.

This name is not displayed in the ASMS UI, and must be returned from the database by API.

Since this name includes the tree hierarchy, it's used as the unique system device.

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