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# Introduction to Actions

Actions allow you to query an ACI server and instruct it to perform a variety of operations.

Note: While most actions can be sent by QueryClients, some are available only to AdminClients. All actions must be sent to the server's Port.

The general syntax of these actions is:

    http://host:port/action=action&requiredParams&optionalParams

where,

`host` | is the IP address or name of the machine on which the ACI server is installed.
`port` | is the ACI port by which actions are sent to the ACI server (set by the `Port` parameter in the `[Server]` section of the configuration file).
`action` | is the name of the action you want to run.
`requiredParams` | are the parameters you must supply for the action you are requesting. (Not all actions have required parameters.)
`optionalParams` | are parameters you can supply for the action you are requesting. (Not all actions have optional parameters.)

Separate the individual parameters with an ampersand (&). Separate parameter names from values with an equals sign (=). You must percent-encode all parameter values.

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