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How to I find my ACCESS_TOKEN for the REST API?

tashburn
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How to I find my ACCESS_TOKEN to use the REST API?

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bmacias84
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@tashburn, I guessing your tying to use the HTTP Header method of authenticating with Splunkd. Your access-token is your session key which can be used against the API, which can be retieved from the /services/auth/login and will be a long string of hexadecimal chars.


curl -k -u <user>:<passw> https://<splunkd>:8089/services/auth/login \ -d username=<user> -d password=<passw>


<response>
<sessionKey>##someHexdecimalNumber##</sessionKey>
</response>

Additional info:

auth/login

REST API Overview - Auth Methods

Authentication

Hope this helps.

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