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Kurt_Huffman
Former Employee
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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Anonymous
2 years ago

The code should look like this: 

// Get API credentials from environment variablesvar api_id = pm.environment.get('api_id');var api_key = pm.environment.get('api_key');   

// Get the HTTP method from the requestvar http_verb = request.method;

// Extract the resource path from the request URLvar resource_path = request.url.replace(/(^{{url}})([^\?]+)(\?.*)?/, '$2');

// Get the current time in epoch formatvar epoch = (new Date()).getTime();

// If the request includes a payload, included it in the request variablesvar request_vars = (http_verb == 'GET'||http_verb == 'DELETE') ?http_verb + epoch + resource_path : http_verb + epoch + request.data + resource_path;   

// Generate the signature and build the Auth headervar signature = btoa(CryptoJS.HmacSHA256(request_vars,api_key).toString());var auth = "LMv1 " + api_id + ":" + signature + ":" + epoch;

// Write the Auth header to the environment variablepm.environment.set('auth', auth);