# Kace

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/kace/  
**Website:** https://www.quest.com/kace/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

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.

## Kin Score — 9.6 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 9.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 66.7 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 4.5 |
| Contract Governance | 4.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 11.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 8.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## APIs (1)

- **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 (2)

- **Kace Authentication** — session · 1 scheme
- **Kace Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Endpoint Management, Systems Management, IT Asset Management, Patch Management, Service Desk, Device Management, Quest Software

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/kace/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.