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Extending Product Function
Learn how to extend the function of HCL DevOps Deploy (Deploy).
REST API reference
You can use these REST interfaces to automate tasks.
REST commands for the DevOps Deploy server
The following list shows the commands that are available for the HCL DevOps Deploy (Deploy) server.
frontendServer resource
Delete a frontend server.
Used to remove frontend servers which are no longer active.

Extending Product Function
Learn how to extend the function of HCL DevOps Deploy (Deploy).
- Plug-ins
  The HCL plug-ins provide tools for creating component processes and integrations. HCL plug-ins provides plug-ins for several common deployment processes, and others are available to integrate with a wide variety of tools, such as middleware tools, databases, and servers.
- Creating notification templates
  Notification templates are the basis for emails that the server sends to users after an event occurs on the server. You can create customized notification templates by modifying the default templates provided, or by creating new templates of your own.
- REST API reference
  You can use these REST interfaces to automate tasks.
  - Running REST commands
    Many different programs can run REST commands. To run the command, you call a method on a REST resource and pass parameters or a request in JSON format.
  - Examples of REST API commands
    Many REST and command-line client commands have examples in their help topics. A few more examples using various programming languages and scenarios are provided here. The commands are similar for the server.
  - Authenticating for REST commands
    The way that you authenticate to run REST commands depends on how the server is set up and the tool that you are using to run the commands.
  - REST commands for the DevOps Deploy server
    The following list shows the commands that are available for the HCL DevOps Deploy (Deploy) server.
    - agentCLI resource
    - agentPool resource
    - application resource
      Resources for working with applications, including manipulating the components and environments that are associated with applications.
    - applicationPipeline resource
    - applicationProcess resource
    - applicationProcessRequest resource
    - applicationTemplate resource
    - approval/task resource
    - authenticationRealm resource
    - blueprint resource
    - calendar resource
    - component resource
    - componentProcess resource
    - componentProcessRequest resource
    - componentTemplate resource
    - deploymentTrigger resource
    - diagnostics/latency resource
    - environment resource
    - environmentTemplate resource
    - frontendServer resource
      - Delete a frontend server.
        Used to remove frontend servers which are no longer active.
      - Get a list of frontend servers.
        Get information about all frontend servers.
    - group resource
    - inventory resource
    - javaPackage resource
    - login resource
    - postProcessingScript resource
    - process resource
    - processRequest resource
    - relay resource
    - resource resource
    - resourceTemplate resource
    - secretstore resource
    - snapshot resource
    - sshInstallAgent resource
    - status resource
    - systemConfiguration resource
    - tags resource
    - team resource
      Resources for creating, editing, and deleting teams.
    - teamsecurity resource
      Resources for adding users and groups to teams and for creating authorization tokens.
    - user resource
    - vault/appRole resource
    - version resource
    - webhookTemplate resource
    - workflowTrace resource
      Resources for manipulating workflows.
    - zInventory resource
- Command-line client (CLI) reference
  CLI is a command-line interface that provides access to the HCL DevOps Deploy (Deploy) server. It can be used to find or set properties and to run numerous functions.
- Process-as-code feature
  Programmatically manage processes with PAC language.

Delete a frontend server.

Used to remove frontend servers which are no longer active.

Request

DELETE https://{hostname}:{port}
    /cli/frontendServer/{serverId}
Accept: text/plain

Table 1. URL parameters
Parameter	Type	Required	Description
serverId	string	true	Unique id of the server from installed.properties.

Table 2. Header parameters
Parameter	Type	Required	Description
Accept	`text/plain`	true

Related CLI command: deleteFrontendServer.