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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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Kurt_Huffman
Former Employee
7 years ago

LMv1 (token-based) authentication relies on a dynamically generated signature in the Authorization header. Current time is one of the inputs for generating the signature which is why the pre-request script must be run for each request.

While we recommend using LMv1 authentication due to its greater security, basic authentication (user-password) is supported for v1 of our API and is easily implemented when dynamic generation of the Authorization header is not possible. You can find more information about authenticating with our API here: Using LogicMonitor's REST API