Automic Automation / REST Agent Integration

The REST Agent lets you exchange requests and responses between the Automation Engine (Automic Automation's backend) and a target REST Web Service through an intuitive Graphical User Interface, namely, AWI. Instead of having to code, developers and object designers can configure the requests and responses that they would define in any REST API client using form-like, easy to understand views.

The REST Agent Integration gives you full access to Automic Automation's powerful workload automation, scheduling and monitoring capabilities. Once the Agent is installed, the Agent and all necessary components are configured (Connection object, REST Jobs), you can start designing and executing Workflows that orchestrate chains of REST calls. In the Process Monitoring perspective you can then access the Workflow monitor, execution information and reports.

The REST Agent supports the following request methods:

  • GET

  • PUT

  • POST

  • PATCH

  • DELETE

  • HEAD

  • OPTIONS

  • TRACE

Important!

The REST Agent replaces the RA REST Agent. Once you have installed and configured the REST Agent, you will not need the old RA REST Agent anymore. It is not possible to run both REST Agents side-by-side.

Important Considerations

To be able to implement (install and configure) and work with the Agent Integration, a sound knowledge of Automic Automation is required. If you are new to Automic Automation, we strongly recommend that you take the following courses before beginning with this integration:

For all users:

For administrators:

For developers and object designers

 

This documentation describes how to set up the integration and how to work with REST Jobs: