topic Re: API Testing in API / CLI Discussion

API Testing

viveky — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 08:57:53 GMT

How to generate "x-chkp-sid" for the api testing in POSTMAN

https://<mgmt-server>:<port>/web_api/show-logs

for testing this API we need Request Headers (x-chkp-sid)

ref link

Thanks in Advandce..!

Re: API Testing

PhoneBoy — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 13:52:12 GMT

You need to log in to use the API.
That starts with the login endpoint, which will provide a sid upon successful authorization.
That sid can then be used in future API calls.
See: https://sc1.checkpoint.com/documents/latest/APIs/index.html#web/login~v1.8%20

In general, you need to be mindful of the following flow when working with the API:

login (gets a sid)
"do stuff"
publish (if write changes occur)
logout

Re: API Testing

Hugo_vd_Kooij — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 09:18:21 GMT

Just a quick warning.

"do stuff" is not unlimited. If you need to to a lot of things you better do this in bacthes where you repeat step 2 and 3 for each batch.

Just for fun try to import 3000 networks and 1000 groups of various sorts and then try to publish that. it will take a while. (Enough to grind the beans by hands to make your own coffee.)

Re: API Testing

PhoneBoy — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 19:15:11 GMT

That number of operations might also fail if you don't have sufficient memory on your management.
Publishing after a couple hundred write/modify operations is recommended.