web services in HP SIM

[Vasco TP]

does anyone know if HP SIM works with web services? I would like to create a web service that returns, for example, the name and the location of every server.

[David Claypool]

Can you be a little more specific?

[Vasco TP]

thanks for replying,
I'll try to simplify:

does HP SIM has any API or web services that provide methods.
for example, if I have an application that needs to get data from the SIM database how can I do it?
should I go directly to the database?
Is there any Business layer that provide methods to do this?

[David Claypool]

The simplest way would be to use the command line tools, although you also could open a read-only ODBC connection to the database. What exactly are you trying to do?

[Vasco TP]

here's what I'm trying to do:
I have an application (web based) that shows information about a data center but not just only hardware. So I need to feed my database with info from other applications (for example HP SIM for the Hardware info). The app that I'm feeding from, regarding the software info, provides me with web services that retrieve info in XML format. So the question is: Does HP SIM provides any way (programmatically speaking) for doing this?

[David Claypool]

Your best bet is still ODBC. There are several web services out there that can connect to ODBC. Remember to open read only.