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.