Anybody using GAIA API Proxy?

[Oliver_Fink]

I cannot get GAIA API Proxy to work and wonder if anyone did again.

How far I understood the way of usage is this:

1. I login to Management API first.
2. I take the session ID (SID) and request the URL https://<IP Address of Management Server>/web_api/gaia-api/<Gaia API Version>/<Gaia API Command> and a body containing JSON { "target" : "<IP> or <Object Name> or <OUID>" } for the GAIA API Call.
3. SMS asks SGW and returns result.
4. I am happy.

But that does not work. I get either a "500 server error" or a "404 Not Found".

Fun fact:

There are 3 examples in the linked document that all use other URL pathes – and that all do not work either.

Has anyone got this running and can shed some light?

[Timothy_Hall · Accepted solution]

Did you try the examples here?

https://sc1.checkpoint.com/documents/latest/APIs/index.html#cli/gaia-api~v2%20

I assume you have checked that the Gaia API is working properly on the final target with gaia_api status?

Next step is to look in $FWDIR/log/api.elg on the SMS for clues, and also on the Gaia target the log file /var/log/gaia_api_server.log.  In many cases while teaching the CCAS class, looking at these log files is the only way to figure out what is wrong due to syntax /parsing errors and such.

[Oliver_Fink]

Thank you for referring to the log files. I should have had a look on them earlier. What should I say? I picked just that one cluster that had an expired external HTTPS certificate for my tests. 😕

That said: I would qualify the URL pathes in every of the 3 examples in the Gaia API-Proxy documentation as wrong.

[Amir_Senn]

You need to log with GAIA API, not MGMT API, if I understood correctly.

https://sc1.checkpoint.com/documents/latest/GaiaAPIs/index.html#cli/login~v1.8%20

Use that session ID.

I got a message for the action man:

I'm happy, hope you're happy too

[Oliver_Fink]

Nope, the way is as I wrote. I do not want to connect to the Gaia API of the SGW directly, but use the SMS as Gaia API Proxy.