API Testing

[viveky]

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..!

[PhoneBoy · Accepted solution]

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:

1. login (gets a sid)
2. "do stuff"
3. publish (if write changes occur)
4. logout

[Hugo_vd_Kooij]

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.)

[PhoneBoy]

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.