How to enable rest-api?

[rajanshrivastav]

Hi Team,

I'm running Splunk on AWS ec2 instance backed by AWS ALB.
I've created target group for port 80,443 & 8089 for splunk. Security groups & network ACL are already opened for these ports.
But whenever I do "curl -k http://localhost:8089/en-us",
it says -- "curl: (56) Recv failure: Connection reset by peer"

I'm accessing it as a root user , also I've admin credentials as well.

Please let me know how I can access this port, I've a requirement to enable rest-api. I checked for other articles but I didn't find any satisfactory answers. I got to know that rest-api works for everyone, but in my case it is not working.

Please help me enabling rest-api features.

Thanks,

[MuS]

Hi rajanshrivastav786,

But whenever I do "curl -k
http://localhost:8089/en-us",
Your problem is that you are using port 8089 AND http, the management port and therefore the REST API uses SSL by default.

Just use curl -k https://localhost:8089/ instead and it works.

cheers, MuS

[inventsekar]

As per my knowledge, there is no enable/disable for rest API.
(Maybe, roles/capabilities issue can occur)

To verify, Simply run...(replace the admin:changeme to your username:password)

curl -k -u admin:changeme https://localhost:8089/services/search/jobs --data-urlencode 'search=search index="_internal" | head 1'

[rajanshrivastav]

After running above command, it is showing following result-

1536009195.1426

[rajanshrivastav]

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1536009195.1426

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[rajanshrivastav]

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