topic REST API Call to NSX-T Manager Authentication in VMware NSX Discussions

REST API Call to NSX-T Manager Authentication

ukonstantin — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 13:58:19 GMT

Hello,

I would like to access our NSX-T Manager with via API (Postman).
While doing this I notice access is only granted when using a local username like admin.
Our Authentication to the managers is done via VIDM - LDAP. If I login to the GUI everything works fine while using my windows username.
But this user/authentication doesn't work while using an API call
The output on postman is:
HTTPS Code 403
Warning: Self signed certificate in certificate chain

Any help?

Udo

Re: REST API Call to NSX-T Manager Authentication

JNyquist — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 12:05:00 GMT

Hello all!

I am also interested in the result of this question as well. We also use LDAP for authenticating most of our admins, and not everyone who needs access to API can have a local admin account, and we cannot share local admin password that wide either.

Br,

Jonas

Re: REST API Call to NSX-T Manager Authentication

ukonstantin — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 13:44:22 GMT

Hi,

I found a solution for our problem:

With Postman I use an environment with username and password.

The username ist the LDAP user WITH the domain

<ldap_user>@<domain>.COM

With this it works for me.

Udo