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In a nutshell this is another view on the management API available over the http connector installed in standalone.xml/host.xml, normally on port 9990.
<management>
<security-realms>
<security-realm name="ManagementRealm">
<authentication>
<properties path="mgmt-users.properties" relative-to="jboss.server.config.dir" plain-text="true"/>
</authentication>
</security-realm>
</security-realms>
<management-interfaces>
<native-interface interface="management" port="9999"/>
<http-interface interface="management" port="9990"/>
</management-interfaces>
</management>
The GET URL form is a mapping of operation addresses, with a few
supported read operations, and support for mapping top level values via
query parameters. The default operation is read-resource. So in
otherwords you can dump the whole management tree like so:
http://localhost:9990/management?recursive
To make the output of any GET operation easier to read you can append the "json.pretty" parameter to the end, e.g.:
http://localhost:9990/management?operation=resource&recursive&json.pretty
The lack of additional /'s defaults to the root node.
The lack of an "operation" defaults to the read-resource operation.
The "recursive" is mapped to the recursive as a boolean, a lack of an
assignment defaults to "true"
The attributes of the http web connector can be restrieved with:
http://localhost:9990/management/subsystem/web/connector/http
A single attribute can be retrieved by specifying the attribute
operation and the attribute name:
http://localhost:9990/management/subsystem/logging/console-handler/CONSOLE?operation=attribute&name=autoflush
The full description of the mode can be retrieved using the
read-resource-description operation like so:
http://localhost:9990/management?operation=resource-description&recursive&operations
TBD
Document the POST operations, e.g. to create a deployment