ASA REST API

Question 1

what does it support

Answer 1

• standard HTTP success and error messages
• JSON encoding
• REST calls

Question 2

REST comes natively suppported

Answer 2

no, you must install an add-on module

Question 3

is there a software dependency between OS and API

Answer 3

no

Question 4

how to enable REST API

Answer 4

• software above 9.3(2) or 9.4(1)
• http server enable
• download REST agent
• rest-api image to install
• rest-api agent to start

Question 5

explain required user priviliges pertaining to API

Answer 5

• level 3: only GET /api/monitoring calls
• level 5: all GET calls
• level 15: PUT/POST/DELETE operations

Question 6

how does ASA authenticate the admin

Answer 6

checks privileges provided by Basic Auth or Token fields

Question 7

where is API documentation located

Answer 7

https:///docs

Question 8

what is an alternative to Postman

Answer 8

ASA’s native API console

Question 9

what HTTP methods ASA support

Answer 9

GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE

Question 10

which enconding Basic Auth uses

Answer 10

base64 encoded string of username:password

Question 11

how to obtain X-Auth-Token

Answer 11

API call to /api/tokenservices