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Kurt_Huffman's avatar
Kurt_Huffman
7 years ago

Accessing the LogicMonitor REST API with Postman and LMv1 API Token Authentication

Introduction Postman is widely used for interacting with various REST APIs such as LogicMonitor's. However, there is no out-of-the-box support for the LMv1 authentication method which we recommend a...
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Stuart_Weenig's avatar
Stuart_Weenig
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2 years ago

That's because the endpoint is part of the signature. The signature is generated dynamically, but doesn't use your {{dds_id}} environment variable. So, the signature is getting calculated without that, but your request has it. Hence auth failed.

tl;dr - you can't use environment variables to pass in any part of the endpoint (/device/devices/18421/devicedatasources/THISRIGHTHERE/instances).