topic Re: How to access splunk api in postman in All Apps and Add-ons

How to access splunk api in postman

raviguptasplunk — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 09:18:47 GMT

I am not able to authenticate or able to access splunk using its REST api in Postman.
I have done the trial Splunk Enterprise setup on my local system , I am able to access APIs using curl but through postman i am not.

Re: How to access splunk api in postman

harsmarvania57 — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 11:26:12 GMT

Hi @raviguptasplunk,

How are you passing username and password? In my lab environment I am able to fire POST request in Firefox and I am passing username and password in Request body like username=myuser&password=mypassword and I am getting sessionKey in Response.

Re: How to access splunk api in postman

raviguptasplunk — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 05:58:30 GMT

Thanks @harsmarvania57 I am able to get the sessionKey now, i had to disable ssl in postman

Re: How to access splunk api in postman

gjanders — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 21:56:08 GMT

I believe you have the answer but you need to disable SSL validation in postman to allow the self-signed Splunk SSL certificate to work.
If you can either accept my answer or close the question that would be appreciated!

Re: How to access splunk api in postman

lijuj — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 23:56:23 GMT

POST RequestBody

username=admin&password=changeme&output_mode=json

Respons Body
{
"sessionKey": "9sIFIEq4tw6LNjhmlFBkOB6NMoCh^OWER^Y^bND6n69JbCI3ENMNR0wotaA09ZoT^gfmNEycqyZfoyhH1Yns_m3XysFJOwD9zRvtDlSW"
}

Re: How to access splunk api in postman

lijuj — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 00:00:17 GMT

you may get error message if you don't disable SSL on postman or browser

"javax.net.ssl.SSLPeerUnverifiedException: peer not authenticated"