Custom External Provider

In addition to the standard external provider, you can add a custom external provider that communicates with a self-developed API. This API can be used, for example, to control unsupported hardware or to integrate other providers.

Quick Facts:

• Currently, only power management is supported.
• Multiple custom providers can be added so that different API URLs to be addressed.
• To cover edge cases, the body data is enriched to include meta information that aids in providing context to the request (see the API example file).

How to create a new external provider

An example of an API backend can be downloaded here. This example provides details on how Tenantos sends requests and what responses are expected.

• After the API backend has been created, add an external provider as usually.
• After the provider has been added, a connection assignment can be added to the servers.