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How to access splunk api in postman

raviguptasplunk
New Member

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.

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gjanders
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

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!

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gjanders
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

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!

harsmarvania57
Ultra Champion

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.

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raviguptasplunk
New Member

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

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lijuj
Explorer

POST RequestBody

username=admin&password=changeme&output_mode=json

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

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lijuj
Explorer

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

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

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