Creating an administrator using mgmt_cli

[kaliuga]

Hi! I am looking for a way to create an admin using mgmt_cli.

I already found the Management API documentation, but I can't find the commands to publish the changes. For example: 

To create an administrator with an api key authentication method:

mgmt_cli add administrator name admin authentication-method api key permissions-profile read only all  expiration-date never --domain System Data

To generate an api key for it:

mgmt_cli add api-key admin-name admin --domain System Data --format json

To enable the API service:

mgmt_cli set api-settings accepted-api-calls-from all ip addresses that can be used for gui clients --domain System Data --format json

and after that:

mgmt_cli -r true --domain MDS set api-settings accepted-api-calls-from "All IP addresses"

api restart

api status

Questions:

Is everything right with these commands?

Do I still need to run the publish changes command? If yes, how it looks? I found only show last-published-session and purge-published-sessions.

And do I need to run two commands to enable the API service or just "mgmt_cli -r true ..." is enough?

Thank you in advance!

[Tal_Paz-Fridman · Accepted solution]

If you are not using the session ID it should publish automatically right after the command is executed.

So for example from the Check Point Management API Reference guide:

https://sc1.checkpoint.com/documents/latest/APIs/?#cli/add-administrator~v1.9.1%20

Using this command should also publish:

mgmt_cli add administrator name "admin" password "secret" must-change-password false email "admin@gmail.com" phone-number "1800-800-800" authentication-method "check point password" permissions-profile "read write all"  --domain 'System Data' --format json

There is no need to restart the API service. It should run properly by default.

[the_rock]

Thats it, what @Tal_Paz-Fridman sent. I did it before and does work.

Andy

https://sc1.checkpoint.com/documents/latest/APIs/#cli/add-administrator~v1.9.1%20