Access Northbound API

About this task

This topic describes setting up northbound API access in EFA.

Note

Do not use this process for OpenStack instance.

Procedure

Fetch the access token using username and password.

curl -X POST 'https://10.x.x.x/v1/auth/token/access-token' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{
    "username": "xxxxxx",
    "password": "xxxxxx"
}'

The response contains the access token.

{
    "access-token": "eyJhbGciOi… ",
    "token-type": "Bearer",
    "refresh-token": "eyJhbGciOi…"
}

Any request to the northbound API must have the access token in the request header.

For example, to fetch all the switches in inventory, run the following command:

curl -X GET 'https://10.x.x.x/v1/inventory/switches' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOi…'

Note

The expiry for the access token is set to one hour by default. You can increase the expiry by using the efa auth settings token update command.