topic RE: API Authentication in Insomnia in ExtremeCloud IQ Controller

API Authentication in Insomnia

Byron_Morales — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 21:52:00 GMT

Hi Guys,

I'm trying to use insomnia to use XCC api but I keep getting 401 unauthorized error.

I have the authentication set to Bearer but I'm not sure what to put in for the token or prefix.

I create an API key for the admin user in XCC and pasted that into the token field but that doesn't work.

RE: API Authentication in Insomnia

Gareth_Mitchell — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 12:16:00 GMT

Hi Byron

First you must do a POST and send username/password to the controller which asks the controller to generate a time-limited token for you, once you have this token (a very long string) you copy/paste that into the token value in the bearer, the token is used to authenticate future REST API calls, see below:

HTH

-Gareth

RE: API Authentication in Insomnia

Byron_Morales — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 19:07:00 GMT

Hi Gareth,

Thanks for getting back to me. I was able to figure out by using curl to send the post and passing the json file with my credentials, but I was wondering how to do the same in insomnia which I now understand from your screenshot. I played around with adding APs in bulk to XCC and it worked out great. I'm really loving the flexibility this is going to create as I dive deeper into the API's available and how I manage our end customers.

I have a question on the reauth token though. I was able to send the POST using the reauth token and saw that I get a new token and new reauth token, but is there a way to make make the token persistent or not expire? I'm wondering how I'm supposed to update the authentication token if I want to run API's calls on a schedule.

RE: API Authentication in Insomnia

Miguel-Angel_RO — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 19:51:00 GMT

Hi Byron,
Here the way to chain requests in Insomnia.
Regards

Mig