Juniper NETWORK AND SECURITY MANAGER 2010.4 - API GUIDE REV 1, Manual

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About This Guide
This preface provides the following guidelines for using the NSM API Guide and related
Juniper Networks, Inc. technical documents:
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Objectives on page xv
• Audience on page xv
• Conventions on page xv
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Documentation on page xvii
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Requesting Technical Support on page xvii
Objectives
This guide explains how to use the Network and Security Manager (NSM) API to manage
device configurations and control communications between the API, external web clients,
and the internal NSM GUI client.
Audience
This guide is written for developers and network administrators who configure and monitor
Juniper Networks DMI and non-DMI compliant device routing platforms.
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Customers with technical knowledge of networks and the Internet.
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Network administrators who install, configure, and manage Juniper Networks products.
Familiarity with the XML language is needed.
Conventions
The sample screens used throughout this guide are representations of the screens that
appear when you install and configure the NSM software. The actual screens may differ.
All examples show default file paths. If you do not accept the installation defaults, your
paths will vary from the examples.
Table 1 on page xvi defines text conventions used in this guide.
xv Copyright © 2010, Juniper Networks, Inc.