The browser is not the only way to manage eBox or to retrieve information from it. eBox has a web service interface, enabling the communication with other machines or programs, and whose full potential is yet to be uncovered.

The most obvious advantage is that it allows several eBox installations to communicate and coordinate with each other without bothering the system administrator, extending thus the original concept of service integration to the whole infrastructure.

Another advantage is that eBox can potentially share the information about an organization’s IT infrastructure and coordinate with other corporate applications, extending thus the original concept of service integration to any corporate software.

Moreover, if you are fluent in Perl, you can quickly program scripts in eBox to automate procedures within your IT systems and to import or export data to or from it.

But the potential of the web services and scripts do not end here: eBox can communicate with virtually any embedded, mobile or desktop solution. The only hurdle is to find the need to cover.