Kace

KACE is the endpoint and systems management product line from Quest Software, originally founded in 2003 as KACE Networks (backed by Norwest Venture Partners, Sigma Partners, and Focus Ventures), acquired by Dell in 2010, and now sold as Quest KACE. The portfolio centers on the KACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA) for inventory, patching, software distribution, scripting, and service desk; the KACE Systems Deployment Appliance (SDA) for OS imaging and provisioning; and KACE Cloud for mobile device management and modern endpoint management. The KACE SMA ships a REST API (JSON and XML) that lets administrators programmatically manage assets, inventory, managed installations, scripting, users, and service-desk tickets on the customer-hosted appliance. This profile enriches the original Norwest portfolio lead with the real Quest KACE identity and its documented API surface.

Kace publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Endpoint Management, Systems Management, IT Asset Management, and Patch Management.

Kace’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, support, authentication, and 7 more developer resources.

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9.6/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

1 APIs

Company Endpoint Management Systems Management IT Asset Management Patch Management Service Desk Device ManagementQuest Software

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 9.6/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 2.4 / 20

Access Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Contract Governance 0.5 / 12

Discoverability 6.7 / 10

Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

KACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA) API

REST API for the KACE Systems Management Appliance. Authenticated KACE SMA users can manage appliance data across the Asset, Inventory, Managed Install, Scripting, User, and Ser...

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Kace Authentication

session · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Kace Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Lifecycle

Lifecycle

Conformance

Conformance

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Deprecation

Deprecation

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: kace
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/kace.png
name: Kace
description: KACE is the endpoint and systems management product line from Quest Software, originally founded in 2003 as KACE
  Networks (backed by Norwest Venture Partners, Sigma Partners, and Focus Ventures), acquired by Dell in 2010, and now sold
  as Quest KACE. The portfolio centers on the KACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA) for inventory, patching, software distribution,
  scripting, and service desk; the KACE Systems Deployment Appliance (SDA) for OS imaging and provisioning; and KACE Cloud
  for mobile device management and modern endpoint management. The KACE SMA ships a REST API (JSON and XML) that lets administrators
  programmatically manage assets, inventory, managed installations, scripting, users, and service-desk tickets on the customer-hosted
  appliance. This profile enriches the original Norwest portfolio lead with the real Quest KACE identity and its documented
  API surface.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kace/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- norwest-venture-partners
x-tier: enriched
x-tier-reason: acquired-by-dell-2010-now-quest-kace
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Endpoint Management
- Systems Management
- IT Asset Management
- Patch Management
- Service Desk
- Device Management
- Quest Software
apis:
- name: KACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA) API
  description: REST API for the KACE Systems Management Appliance. Authenticated KACE SMA users can manage appliance data
    across the Asset, Inventory, Managed Install, Scripting, User, and Service Desk modules. Requests and responses support
    JSON and XML (selected via Accept / Content-Type), with API routing controlled by an x-kace-api-version header and query
    features for filtering, sorting, paging, shaping, and counting. The API runs on the customer-hosted appliance, so the
    base URL is the local appliance host (https://<kace_sma_host>/ams/); there is no shared public production host.
  humanURL: https://support.quest.com/technical-documents/kace-systems-management-appliance/15.0/api-reference-guide
  properties:
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://support.quest.com/technical-documents/kace-systems-management-appliance/15.0/api-reference-guide
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kace/refs/heads/main/authentication/kace-authentication.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/kace-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.quest.com/kace/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://www.quest.com/kace/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://support.quest.com/kace-systems-management-appliance/technical-documents
- type: APIReference
  url: https://support.quest.com/technical-documents/kace-systems-management-appliance/15.0/api-reference-guide
- type: Support
  url: https://support.quest.com/kace-systems-management-appliance
- type: Authentication
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kace/refs/heads/main/authentication/kace-authentication.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/kace-lifecycle.yml
- type: Deprecation
  url: https://support.quest.com/kb/4268357/kace-software-product-support-lifecycle-policy
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/kace-conformance.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/kace-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

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