Microsoft Azure StorSimple8000SeriesManagementClient

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For Agents

Manage StorSimple 8000 hybrid storage appliances on Azure: devices, volume containers, volumes, backup policies, and alerts.

Install Jentic One Beta

Connect the StorSimple8000SeriesManagementClient to your agent

Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the StorSimple8000SeriesManagementClient, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.

Two steps, two machines. Install the instance in a safe environment, then register your agent from wherever it runs.

Step 1: Jentic One Host machine

# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh

Step 2: Agent machine

# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh
jentic register       # connects your agent to your Jentic One instance

Jentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with StorSimple8000SeriesManagementClient API.

Create volume containers and provision iSCSI volumes on a device

Schedule and trigger backups against a backup policy

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Start building with StorSimple8000SeriesManagementClient API

Explore with Jentic

View OpenAPI Document

Jentic publishes the only available OpenAPI specification for StorSimple8000SeriesManagementClient, keeping it validated and agent-ready. The StorSimple 8000 Series management API drives Azure-side configuration of StorSimple 8000 hybrid storage appliances, including managers, devices, volume containers, volumes, backup policies, and alerts. It exposes the full lifecycle of an appliance fleet — registration, configuration, backup scheduling, failover, and decommissioning — along with diagnostic operations like alerts and metrics. Use it for organisations still operating StorSimple 8000 series appliances against Azure.

Use Cases

Patterns agents use StorSimple8000SeriesManagementClient API for, with concrete tasks.

★ Hybrid Storage Lifecycle Management

StorSimple 8000 appliances tier hot data on-prem and cold data into Azure. Operators use StorSimple8000SeriesManagementClient to register the appliance under a StorSimple manager, create volume containers backed by an Azure storage account, then carve iSCSI volumes for application servers. The same API handles ongoing changes — resizing volumes, updating bandwidth limits, and rolling new firmware to devices.

Create a 1 TB volume named 'erp-data' inside volume container 'finance-vc' on device 'sts8000-london-01' under manager 'finance-stsmgr'.

Backup and Disaster Recovery

StorSimple 8000 backup is policy-driven: a backup policy attaches to one or more volumes and runs on a schedule, with snapshots stored in Azure. The API exposes create-or-update on backup policies and schedules, manual backup triggers, and clone-from-backup operations for recovery. Failover endpoints relocate workloads to a replacement appliance when hardware fails.

Create a backup policy 'nightly' on manager 'finance-stsmgr' that backs up volume id /subscriptions/.../volumes/erp-data daily at 02:00 UTC.

Fleet-Wide Alert Triage

StorSimple managers raise alerts for capacity thresholds, hardware failures, and connectivity issues. The API lists alerts across a manager and supports clearing acknowledged alerts in bulk. A monitoring job pulls the alert list every few minutes, opens incidents for severity High and above in the operations queue, and clears stale alerts.

List all alerts on manager 'finance-stsmgr' with severity 'Critical', then call the clearAlerts endpoint for any alert older than 30 days.

Agent-Driven Backup Operations via Jentic

An AI operator agent receives an instruction like 'back up the ERP volume now' and needs to translate it to the right StorSimple API call. Through Jentic, the agent searches by intent, loads the manual-backup operation schema, and executes it with the correct device and volume identifiers. Azure AD tokens stay in the Jentic vault.

Use Jentic to load the StorSimple8000SeriesManagementClient backup-now operation, then trigger a manual backup of volume 'erp-data' on device 'sts8000-london-01'.

Key Endpoints

92 endpoints — jentic publishes the only available openapi specification for storsimple8000seriesmanagementclient, keeping it validated and agent-ready.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

GET

/providers/Microsoft.StorSimple/operations

List operations exposed by the resource provider

GET

/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/providers/Microsoft.StorSimple/managers

List StorSimple managers in a subscription

PUT

/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.StorSimple/managers/{managerName}

Create or update a manager

GET

/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.StorSimple/managers/{managerName}/devices

List devices under a manager

GET

/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.StorSimple/managers/{managerName}/alerts

List alerts under a manager

POST

/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.StorSimple/managers/{managerName}/clearAlerts

Clear acknowledged alerts in bulk

GET

/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.StorSimple/managers/{managerName}/bandwidthSettings

List bandwidth settings

GET

/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.StorSimple/managers/{managerName}/accessControlRecords

List access control records

GET

/providers/Microsoft.StorSimple/operations

List operations exposed by the resource provider

GET

/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/providers/Microsoft.StorSimple/managers

List StorSimple managers in a subscription

PUT

/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.StorSimple/managers/{managerName}

Create or update a manager

GET

/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.StorSimple/managers/{managerName}/devices

List devices under a manager

GET

/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.StorSimple/managers/{managerName}/alerts

List alerts under a manager

Why Jentic?

Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.

Credential isolation

Azure AD OAuth tokens are stored encrypted in the Jentic vault (MAXsystem). Agents calling StorSimple8000SeriesManagementClient receive scoped, short-lived bearer tokens at execution time — refresh tokens and tenant secrets never enter the agent's context.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search Jentic by intent (e.g., 'list storsimple alerts' or 'create a storsimple volume') and Jentic returns the matching operation with its full input schema, so the agent can call the right endpoint without reading ARM docs.

Time to first call

Direct integration with Azure Resource Manager and the StorSimple object model — manager scopes, volume container hierarchy, async job polling — typically takes 2-3 days. Through Jentic: under 1 hour — search, load schema, execute.

FAQs

Specific to using StorSimple8000SeriesManagementClient API through Jentic.

Why is there no official OpenAPI spec for StorSimple8000SeriesManagementClient?

Microsoft Azure publishes Swagger fragments for the Microsoft.StorSimple resource provider but does not publish a consolidated, validated OpenAPI 3 spec for the 8000 series management surface. Jentic generates and maintains this spec so that AI agents and operators can call StorSimple8000SeriesManagementClient via structured tooling. It is validated against the live Azure Resource Manager API and kept up to date. Get started at https://app.jentic.com/sign-up.

What authentication does the StorSimple8000SeriesManagementClient use?

All endpoints require Azure Active Directory OAuth 2.0, declared as the azure_auth security scheme with the user_impersonation scope against https://login.microsoftonline.com. Through Jentic, Azure tokens are held in the vault and injected at call time so the agent never sees the raw bearer token.

Can I trigger a manual StorSimple backup with this API?

Yes. The API exposes a backup-now operation under the device and volume-container scope (POST under /managers/{managerName}/devices/{deviceName}/.../backup) that triggers an immediate backup using the supplied policy. Long-running operations return 202; poll the returned job endpoint for completion.

What are the rate limits for the StorSimple8000SeriesManagementClient?

Calls go through Azure Resource Manager, which throttles writes per subscription (typically 1,200 writes per hour) and reads more generously. Backup, failover, and clone are long-running — track them through the manager's jobs endpoint rather than retrying.

How do I list StorSimple alerts through Jentic?

Run pip install jentic, search Jentic for 'list storsimple alerts', load the StorSimple8000SeriesManagementClient alerts list operation, and execute it with subscriptionId, resourceGroupName, and managerName. Jentic returns the alert payload directly without you handling the Azure AD token.

Does this API support StorSimple Virtual Array appliances?

No. This spec covers only the 8000 series physical appliances. StorSimple Virtual Array (1200 series) management lives under a different resource provider; use StorSimpleManagementClient for that surface.