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Organization of This Guide

This guide is organized into the following chapters:

Chapter 1, Preface. Provides information about this guide.

Chapter 2, Getting Started. Provides an overview of the Parallels Agent software. Includes installation instructions. Talks about Parallels Agent architecture. Lists communication protocols that can be used to communicate with Agent. Introduces user authentication concepts. Provides a list of the most commonly used Agent terms and explains their meaning.

Chapter 3, Using XML API. This chapter is intended for those who would like to develop client applications using XML API. It begins with the explanation of the XML API basics. It then provides a complete example of how to create a simple client application in Perl. The rest of the material describes how to perform the most common Parallels Virtuozzo Containers management tasks and provides XML code samples.

Chapter 4, Using SOAP API. This chapter is intended for the developers who would like to develope client applications using SOAP API. It begins with the SOAP API overview, its key features and limitations, and provides information on how to generate client code from WSDL documents. It then provides step-by-step instructions on how to create a simple client application in C#. It continues with the description of how to avoid certain problems and how to handle some of the programming issues. It then describes how to perform the most common tasks providing C# code samples. It also provides information about other SOAP clients and their known issues. A troubleshooting information is included at the end of the chapter.

Chapter 5, Advanced Topics. This section describes some of the advanced Agent features that you can use to fine-tune your client applications.

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