Programming Interface

The Sequentum Enterprise programming interface (API) provides access to the Sequentum Enterprise runtime from your own applications. The Sequentum Enterprise runtime requires .NET version 4.5 or higher.

If you want to run agents from a web application, you must use the Sequentum Enterprise proxy API. The proxy API interfaces with the Sequentum Enterprise runtime using a Windows service. The Windows service is installed as part of the Sequentum Enterprise application, so Sequentum Enterprise must be installed on the web server.

You can also use simple web requests to call the Windows service without the use of the Sequentum Enterprise proxy API. This means that you can easily execute agents and retrieve extracted data from non-Windows environments, such as from a PHP page on a Linux server.

In this chapter, you can learn more about Building a Desktop Application and Building a Web Application.

API Restrictions

The API cannot change the agent command structure, or alter the agent in a way that would change the output data structure. You cannot add, delete, move or copy commands, and you cannot change the Disabled and Export command properties.