How to get info on whether the server is enabled and/or running,

Question

I'm posting this for a customer who  has been testing the capabilities of Business Intelligence Platform RESTful Web Service.
We're currently at 4.1 SP2 Patch09. But it seems that we're not being able to get the information that we need. For example a call to http://myBIserver:6405/biprws/infostore/16/children is giving us information about servers such as name or description but  it is not telling us whether the server is enabled and/or running, what is the process ID etc.. The JSON response for the above request is:
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Answer 1

Hi Tom,
As Anthony pointed out, currently it is not possible to get server details like the server state, PID etc. through BIP REST calls. Only prelimnary information about the infostore object is returned. You would need to use the BIP JAVA SDK to retrieve server details. However, we are in the process of enhancing BIP REST SDK. Can you please raise this on idea place under BIP>>SDK category?
Regards
Sumitesh Ranjan Srivastava
Product Manager, BI SDK & OEMs
SAP Labs India