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Service Management API
Chapter 5
About the Service Management API
The Service Management API expands the automated capabilities of a key set of
standard batch commands while maintaining fine grain control over organizations,
users, and domains. In addition, the Service Management commands issue
reports, perform transaction authentication, and test the connectivity between the
client application and the server.
Use the Service Management API for fine grain, administrative control over your
organizations. And use the User Sync API for optimal bulk user updates. For more
information about the User Sync API, see “About the User Sync API” on page 39.
The Service Management API uses the API infrastructure features and a set of
the batch interface commands. Accurate use and understanding of the batch
command and database field interface is critical for a successful Service
Management web service.
This chapter introduces the Service Management API. The Batch and Service
Management API Reference Guide provides detailed information for the web
service and batch command dependencies. This information describes syntax,
summaries, code snippets, cautions, and authorizations needed to manage your
organizational hierarchies.
Service Management API resources to note in The Batch and Service
Management API Reference Guide include:
• “Service Management API” chapter is gives detailed syntax, descriptions,
return values, exceptions, authorizations, input and output fields, and code
samples for each operation.
• “Service Management Example” appendix has a pseudo code algorithm for
deleting a large and complex organization, a common web service task.
Your application can use all of the Google Web Services APIs. The Service
Management API can be in the same application with the User Sync API and the
Endpoint Resolver.