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Endpoints
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GNS3 exposes two type of endpoints:
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* Controller endpoints
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* Compute endpoints
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Controller endpoints
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The controller manages everything, it is the central decision point
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and has a complete view of your network topologies, what nodes run on
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which compute server, the links between them etc.
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This is the high level API which can be used by users to manually control
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the GNS3 backend. The controller will call the compute endpoints when needed.
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A standard GNS3 setup is to have one controller and one or many computes.
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.. toctree::
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:glob:
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:maxdepth: 2
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api/v2/controller/*
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Compute Endpoints
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A compute is the GNS3 process running on a host. It controls emulators in order to run nodes
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(e.g. VMware VMs with VMware Workstation, IOS routers with Dynamips etc.)
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.. WARNING::
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These endpoints should be considered low level and private.
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They should only be used by the controller or for debugging purposes.
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.. toctree::
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:glob:
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:maxdepth: 2
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api/v2/compute/*
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