Quick Start

Set up your environment and use REST APIs to communicate with the Oracle IoT Fleet Monitoring Cloud Service instance by performing the following tasks.

Step 1: Obtain Account Information

From your account administrator, obtain the appropriate account credentials to enable you to communicate with the Oracle IoT Fleet Monitoring Cloud Service instance. Specifically, you will need:

• Username and password

• The URL of the Oracle IoT Fleet Monitoring Cloud Service instance. The URL format is similar to myinstance-myidentitydomain.iot.us.oraclecloud.com and the default port is 443.

Step 2: Install cURL

You can use the cURL command-line tool to access the Oracle IoT Fleet Monitoring Cloud Service REST API.

To connect securely to the server, you must install a version of cURL that supports SSL and provide an SSL certificate authority (CA) certificate file or bundle to authenticate against the Verisign CA certificate. For more information about:

• Using cURL, see Use cURLs.

• Authentication, see Authentication.

The following procedure demonstrates how to install cURL on a Windows 64?bit system.

1. In your browser, navigate to the cURL home page at http://curl.haxx.se and click Download in the left navigation menu.

2. On the cURL Releases and Downloads page, locate the SSL-enabled version of the cURL software that corresponds to your operating system, click the link to download the ZIP file, and install the software.

3. Navigate to the cURL CA Certs page at http://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html and download the ca-bundle.crt SSL CA certificate bundle in the folder where you installed cURL.

4. Open a command window, navigate to the directory where you installed cURL, and set the cURL environment variable, CURL_CA_BUNDLE, to the location of an SSL certificate authority (CA) certificate bundle. For example:

   C:\curl> set CURL_CA_BUNDLE=ca-bundle.crt

You are now ready to send requests to your Oracle IoT Fleet Monitoring Cloud Service instance using cURL.