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At SoftLayer, you can access and manage your server(s) anytime, anywhere, with your management software of choice, remotely perform operations such as soft and hard reboots, OS installs and upgrades that normally require expensive human intervention—all without worrying as much about security as you would at a less experienced or innovative hosting company.  With our approach of turning control over to the customer, our numerous online tutorials, customer support system and helpful sales staff, we are committed to making the server hosting and management process as transparent, easy and painless for you as possible.

  Our optional server management API was developed in-house at SoftLayer Technologies to give our customers the choice of taking control of their hosted servers using any program capable of handling the XML-based SOAP network protocol. Our API is a flexible cross-platform framework allowing software conceived for different purposes to communicate meaningfully, which in turn allows our customers to interface with and remotely manage their servers using the application of their choice. This API may be used in tandem with our management portal, in lieu of it, or not at all. We’re all about choice and enabling our customers to take control of their own server management process. Our optional API directly represents this philosophy.  
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API Documentation & Downloads
We've compiled a few useful documents and downloads to assist developers in utilizing the new SoftLayer API and Developers Toolbox:
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SoftLayer API User’s Guide
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