AR System® C API "How To" Series of Documents
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Common Uses of the Remedy C API
The most commom types of software developed using the Remedy api can be broken down into the following categories:
Wrappers
The C api is the base api released by Remedy for api development with the ARSystem Server. All other programming api's available for integration with Remedy are wrappers for the C api. The languages available as wrappers for the c api, at the time this article was written, include:
- Java
- PHP
- Perl
- .Net
- VB
- C++
Remedy Plugins
Remedy provides a plugin server, available with any ARSystem Server. Plugins can be developed to do any number of tasks. There are two types of plugins that are specialized, however.
AREA
ARDBC
Compiled Plugins Provided by BMC
This section is intended to provide a series of 'examples' of how the plugin server can be used, as demonstrated by BMC/Remedy. These are some other programs provided as plugins by BMC:
- Approval Server (starting with version 7)
- AREA Plugin for LDAP Servers
- ARDBC Plugin for LDAP Servers
Command Line Utilities
Command Line Utilities Provided by /BMC/Remedy
- archgid
- arsignal
- runmacro
- arcache
- arreload
Daemons
Daemon's are long running background processes that exhibit a series of defining characterisics.
Characteristics
The initialization process of a daemon follows:
- Forki The Parent Process
- Change The File Mode Mask (Umask)
- Open Logs For Writing
- Create a Unique Session ID (SID)
- Change The Working Directory
- Close Standard File Descriptors
Detailed information on a daemon program structure can be found at the following sources:
Compiled Daemons Provided by BMC
- Approval Server (up to version 7)
- Plugin Server
- ARServer
- ARMonitor
