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Dell Servers

APIs for managing and monitoring Dell PowerEdge servers and infrastructure, including the iDRAC Redfish out-of-band management interface, OpenManage Enterprise centralized console and its modular, power, support, and VMware integrations, telemetry streaming, the Lifecycle Controller, RACADM, and the legacy WSMan interface.

agent ready

Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Dell Servers the way a machine reads it — 83 machine-readable artifacts across 27 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Dell Servers scores 64.2/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 64.2/100 · strong
Contract Quality 17.5 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 11.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 14.7 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 7.9 / 12
Discoverability 8.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Dell Servers

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Dell Servers. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 27

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Dell OpenManage Enterprise Modular API

RESTful API for managing Dell PowerEdge MX7000 modular chassis and its components including compute sleds, network devices, IOMs, and storage. OME-Modular shares a common codeba...

Dell OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager API

RESTful API for monitoring and managing power consumption, thermal conditions, and energy costs across Dell PowerEdge server infrastructure. Power Manager is a plug-in to the Op...

Dell OpenManage Enterprise SupportAssist API

RESTful API for the OpenManage Enterprise SupportAssist plug-in that enables proactive and predictive monitoring of Dell PowerEdge servers. SupportAssist automates support case ...

Dell OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter API

RESTful API for the OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter (OMIVV), enabling automation of Dell PowerEdge server management within VMware environments. The API is compliant w...

Dell iDRAC Telemetry Streaming API

Server-Sent Events (SSE) streaming API for real-time telemetry data from Dell PowerEdge servers via iDRAC. Provides continuous metric reports including power statistics, CPU and...

Dell Lifecycle Controller Remote Services API

Standards-based interface for remote deployment, configuration, and updates of Dell PowerEdge servers. Lifecycle Controller Remote Services supports WSMAN and Redfish management...

Dell RACADM CLI

Command-line interface for Dell Remote Access Controller Administration. RACADM provides local and remote command-line access to iDRAC for scripting and automating server config...

Dell WSMan API

Web Services Management API for Dell server hardware management. WSMan provides a SOAP-based interface for managing server configuration, BIOS, RAID, NIC, and HBA settings on De...

Dell Servers Accounts API

User account management and role-based access control

Dell Servers Alerts API

Alert monitoring, acknowledgment, and management

Dell Servers Application Settings API

Console configuration including network, time, and proxy settings

Dell Servers Chassis API

Physical enclosure resources including power supplies, thermal sensors, and physical component inventory

Dell Servers Configuration API

Server configuration templates and compliance baselines

Dell Servers Devices API

Device inventory, status, and hardware details for managed servers

Dell Servers Discovery API

Network discovery configuration and job management

Dell Servers Event Service API

Event subscriptions and server-sent events configuration

Dell Servers Firmware API

Firmware catalog management, compliance, and update operations

Dell Servers Groups API

Device group management for organizing servers and infrastructure

Dell Servers Jobs API

Job creation, scheduling, and status tracking

Dell Servers Managers API

Management controller resources for iDRAC configuration, networking, and remote services

Dell Servers Reports API

Report definitions and execution

Dell Servers Service Root API

Redfish service root and metadata

Dell Servers Sessions API

Authentication session creation and management

Dell Servers Systems API

Computer system resources including hardware inventory, health status, power state, and BIOS configuration

Dell Servers Task Service API

Asynchronous task tracking and lifecycle job management

Dell Servers Telemetry Service API

Telemetry metric definitions and metric report management

Dell Servers Update Service API

Firmware update operations and firmware inventory

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Postman Collections 2

A runnable collection turns the contract into something a developer can execute in seconds. We profile them because the fastest way to trust an API is to make a real call against it.

Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.

Open Collections 2

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Arazzo Workflows 16

Real integrations are rarely a single call. Arazzo describes the multi-step sequences — auth, then create, then confirm — so both a human and an agent can follow the choreography, not just the endpoints.

Multi-step API workflows described with the Arazzo specification.

Dell Servers Chassis Health Report

Assemble a chassis health report from chassis, power, and thermal reads.

ARAZZO

Dell Servers Firmware Inventory and Task Audit

Read the update service, list firmware versions, and poll active tasks.

ARAZZO

Dell Servers iDRAC Manager Overview

Inspect the iDRAC manager, its virtual media, and its log services.

ARAZZO

Dell Servers OpenManage Alert Triage

Find a critical alert, read its detail, then read the source device.

ARAZZO

Dell Servers OpenManage Device Inventory Deep Dive

Read a managed device and pull its detailed hardware inventory.

ARAZZO

Dell Servers OpenManage Device Discovery

Create a discovery configuration, watch its job, then list discovered devices.

ARAZZO

Dell Servers OpenManage Firmware Compliance Check

List firmware catalogs and read their compliance baselines.

ARAZZO

Dell Servers OpenManage Firmware Update Job

Check firmware baselines, run an update job, and poll it to completion.

ARAZZO

Dell Servers OpenManage Group Device Expansion

Find a device group, list its member devices, then read one device.

ARAZZO

Dell Servers OpenManage Session and Device Listing

Authenticate to OpenManage Enterprise and list managed server devices.

ARAZZO

Dell Servers OpenManage Template Deployment Job

Pick a configuration template, run a deploy job, and poll it to completion.

ARAZZO

Dell Servers Power Action with State Polling

Issue a power action on a system and poll until the power state settles.

ARAZZO

Dell Servers Redfish Session Bootstrap

Open a Redfish session and list systems using the session token.

ARAZZO

Dell Servers Set Boot Device and Reset

Read a system, set a pending BIOS boot override, then power-cycle it.

ARAZZO

Dell Servers System Hardware Inventory

Collect system, storage, network, and BIOS detail for one server.

ARAZZO

Dell Servers Telemetry Subscription Setup

Discover metric reports and subscribe to telemetry events.

ARAZZO

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Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Dell Servers Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Dell Servers Context

10 classes · 12 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 3

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Dell Servers API Rules

5 rules · 1 errors · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Dell Servers API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Dell Servers API Rules

5 rules · 1 errors · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 24

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Alert

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Bios

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Chassis

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ComputerSystem

19 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ComputerSystemCollection

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConfigTemplate

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Device

15 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DiscoveryConfigGroup

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EventSubscription

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

FirmwareBaseline

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

FirmwareCatalog

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Group

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

InventoryDetail

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Job

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JobRequest

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Manager

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Power

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ReportDefinition

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ResetAction

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ResourceCollection

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ResourceLink

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ServiceRoot

14 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Status

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Thermal

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Dell Servers Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Dell Servers Authentication

apiKey/http · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Dell Servers Domain Security

TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Dell Servers Vulnerability Disclosure

Bugcrowd · security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Dell Servers Agentic Access

47 operations · 8 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

47 operations · 8 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Dell Servers — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

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