I have no idea what this is or what it does, but from the doc at the URL you found, it appears like the API allows a query like so:
catalogmanager -online http://localhost:9704/analytics/saw.dll
-login Administrator -pwd Administrator
-cmd report -of c:\output.csv -delimiter \",\"
-type Requests \"Request Name\" \"Request Criteria Column\"
If I read this correctly, then you should provide in this call:
- The correct server, i.e., replace `localhost` with your hostname if the catalogmanager or whatever is not running on the local machine
- The username and password as arguments to `-login` and `-pwd`
- An output file name as argument to `-of` (it will probably be a CSV file)
- And some sort of request structure that should be provided in place of "Request Name" and "Request Criteria Column"
And you would use this in Perl in a script like this:
use strict;
use warnings;
# change this to your URL
my $address = 'http://localhost:9704/analytics/saw.dll';
my $username = 'ADMIN'; # change this to your username
my $pwd = 'PASSWORD'; # change this to your password
my $outputfile = 'PATH_TO_OUTPUT_FILE'; # change this to your output file
my $delimiter = ',';
my $request_name = 'REQUEST_NAME'; # adjust this
my $request_column = 'REQUEST_COLUMN'; # and this
my @call = qq( catalogmanager -online $address -login $username
-pwd $password -cmd report -of $outputfile -delimiter $delimiter
-type Requests $request_name $request_column );
# system() returns true if the call was not successful,
# we can make use of this and let the program die if something went wrong
system(@call) and die("Could not exec @call: $!\n");
And it should hopefully write an output file to the path you specified. This file you can parse, but that is a different matter.