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QuantaStor was designed from the ground up so that you can develop your own applications to remotely manage your storage systems.

Supported Languages

You can use just about any programming language you like to communicate with QuantaStor via our RESTful API. Recommended tools:

• C/C++ - libcurl [1]
• Python - PyCurl [2]
• Unix/Linux/VMware/XenServer scripting - curl [3]
• PHP curl - [4]

Async vs. Sync API calls

Task Monitoring

Supported SOAP / WebServices Implementations

• gSOAP (C++, all platforms)
• Apache Axis (Java, all platforms)
• .NET (C# & Visual Basic, Windows)

API List

userAdd API

Adds a new user to the system. User accounts can access QuantaStor via the web management interface, remote scripting and via the qstorapi RESTful API.

Example

https://hostname:8153/userAdd?username=tiger&password=passWORD1&firstName=Tiger&lastName=Woods&role=Administrator

Argument List

   username: <xs:string>
   defaultChapPassword: <xs:string>
   alertSubscriptions: <xs:unsignedInt>
   description: <xs:string>
   firstName: <xs:string>
   lastName: <xs:string>
   flags: <xs:unsignedInt>
   emailAddress: <xs:string>
   role: <xs:string>
   password: <xs:string>
   defaultChapUsername: <xs:string>