You can retrieve or set the global configuration by sending a GET or POST request to http://<host>:<port>/artifactory/api/system/configuration. For example:
Retrieving and Setting the Global Configuration Descriptor
curl -u admin:password -X GET -H "Accept: application/xml" http://localhost:8080/artifactory/api/system/configuration curl -u admin:password -X POST -H "Content-type:application/xml" --data-binary @artifactory.config.xml http://localhost:8080/artifactory/api/system/configuration