API REST Authentication Question

xtraspecialj

I always use PowerShell to connect to the API, so I have literally zero experience with setting up basic REST calls.  However, I have a co-worker that wants to use Microsoft InfoPath to connect to our API and get a list of Node Names.  The problem is we aren't quite sure how to authenticate a REST call to our API.  Looking in the GitHub Wiki documentation examples I don't see anything about how to enter creds in.  Any clue what we're missing here??

(This question is more for InfoPath users, but shot in the dark in case anyone here has experience with this or knows what I'm talking about:) Also, InfoPath's Data Connection Wizard keeps prompting for a certificate when we put in the REST URL for SolarWinds (https://servername:17778).  I tried exporting the SolarWinds-Orion cert for him to use but InfoPath only lets us select Client Authentication certs and that cert is for Server Authentication. 

mrxinu

Thanks for the ping mesverrum​!

Hi xtraspecialj​, the authentication you need to use with the SolarWinds API is called "basic auth". The tutorial above mentions it early on but it's just a header made up of your username and password with a colon in the middle and then base64 encoded to remove any issues with special characters. As for the certificate, the API uses a self-signed certificate. There's talk on the Python README talking about generating one that can be passed around, but in the past I've just ignored the SSL errors and that's been the fastest way to get what I need.