Authenticating with the Aria Operations API
- Brock Peterson
- Oct 14, 2024
- 1 min read
Updated: Feb 27
The Aria Operations API is a powerful way of interacting programatically with Operations. There are several ways to authenticate with the API, let's explore them here.
First, the Operations API can be accessed at the following URL: https://operations_ip_or_fqdn/suite-api
The easiest way is local authentication via the Authorize button top right of the API home page, which you can do like this.
The Authorize button issues a POST /suite-api/api/auth/token/acquire and caches that Bearer Token for use within the Swagger UI. Similar to generating a Bearer Token like this, see the Response Body at the bottom.
You could acquire your Bearer Token via an API tool like Postman as well, like this.
You can use this Bearer Token in the Authorization tab of all subsequent calls (at least until it expires).
If you'd like to use Basic Authentication you'll have to enable it like this. As you can see Basic Auth is currently disabled in my environment and thus my request is failing.
I've adjusted basicAuthentication.enabled=true and cycled the API service via "service api restart" and retried.
As you can see in the Response Body, we got a list of Super Metrics as desired. The Operations API is very powerful, use it!
I've not been able to figure out how to get a token for VCF Ops when using VCF SSO. Putting the name of my Identity Broker, or VCF SSO as the auth source doesn't accept my credentials.
Is there a way to do this, or do you have to get a bearer token from Identity Broker and then use it with a call to VCF Ops?
Would really like to see a working example of doing that, authorizing with VCF SSO and making an API call against VCF 9 Operations.
Brock, are you aware if Basic Authentication can be enabled for vRA? I cant locate a KB for that.