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REST API and Powershell

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Has anyone used Powershell to interact with REST API on PA500?

When I use the Invoke-RestMethod cmdlet to try and generate a key, I get back an empty response. If I run the keygen through a browser, it successfully returns a key. Running 6.1.1.

PS C:> Invoke-RestMethod -Uri http://<ip-of-PA500>/api/?type=keygen%26ampuser=<adminuser>%26amppassword=<adminpassword>

response

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response

http://<ip-of-PA500>/api/?type-keygen&user=<adminuser>&password=<adminpassword>

<response status="success">

     <result>

          <key>

               <.....generated key.....>

          </key>

     </result>

</response>

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L2 Linker

Try this

$HostPA = "http://hostname"

[xml]$content = Invoke-WebRequest "$HostPA/api/?type=keygen&user=user-name&password=user-password"

$apiKey = $content.response.result.key

$apiKey

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L5 Sessionator

sphippen

URL encode for & is %26 I am not why you have that extra "amp" in there, may be that is causing the issue ?

L2 Linker

Try this

$HostPA = "http://hostname"

[xml]$content = Invoke-WebRequest "$HostPA/api/?type=keygen&user=user-name&password=user-password"

$apiKey = $content.response.result.key

$apiKey

That worked...although I'm puzzled as to why Invoke-RestMethod did not.

I retried the same steps you listed but replaced Invoke-WebRequest with Invoke-RestMethod. It worked as well.

Essentially, applying the xml bracket and assigning the output of the command to a variable, let me pull out the relevant information. However, I wasn't expecting it to work that way. I had hoped the cmdlet would output the entire XML stream to the display and not need me to specify the specific data portions.

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