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Can SolarWinds API accept basic auth via the URL?

avdawg over 4 years ago

My end goal is to ACK a SolarWinds Orion alert via an API call triggered from my incident management tool. However, the tool I am sending the POST from does not support custom headers. Will SolarWinds accept basic auth passed in the URL? If so, what is the SolarWinds endpoint URL and payload needed to ACK an alert in SolarWinds?

I have tried the below, but am receiving a 401. Currently my admin account does not have a password and that section in the URL is blank. Maybe this is the cause?

Thanks everyone

Method: POST

Content-Type: application/JSON

Target URL: http://<username>:<password>@<host>:<port>/api/ActiveAlertsGrid/AcknowledgeActiveAlerts

Payload:

{

{<Alert Number>}, "acked by...."

}

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0 mrxinu over 4 years ago

I just tested and that seemed to work. Did you try it?
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0 avdawg over 4 years ago in reply to mrxinu

Yes I tried it, but it does not work. Maybe I should be using a different field than Alert Number? What SolarWinds field should that be? i.e. what is the field an dynamic syntax that identifies a particular alert?
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0 mrxinu over 4 years ago in reply to avdawg

Oh I was focused on the auth portion and didn't even look at the URL snippet you used. Can you give me the entire URL (you can blank out the hostname) of the request and an actual payload so I can compare it to what I'm using?
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0 avdawg over 4 years ago in reply to mrxinu

http://admin:@<redacted_host_name>:8787/api/ActiveAlertsGrid/AcknowledgeActiveAlert
{
5, "some note"
}
In this case, 5 comes from the dynamic variable `${N=Alerting;M=AlertObjectID}`
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0 mrxinu over 4 years ago in reply to avdawg

I'm looking at examples I have for API calls and none of them have /api/ in the URL. Are you sure that's the URL you're using?
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0 avdawg over 4 years ago in reply to mrxinu

According to this thread, that ack URL is old and should be replaced by these methods, specifically Orion.AlertActive. In any case, I'm not triggering the ACK from postman on my local machine, rather from my SaaS incident management tool which can't reach the local SolarWinds server/port without authentication.
Maybe a better question is: How can I use a public API to ack an alert in SolarWinds? My tool doesn't allow for custom headers, but I can pass parameters (thus, basic auth) via the URL.
These are my options from which I am firing my webhook. Customizable payload, customizable URL, customizable Content Type, can change the method, but can't add any other headers unless via URL:
I'm clearly missing something here, just not sure what it is.....I really appreciate the help!
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0 mrxinu over 4 years ago in reply to avdawg

I'll write an example that does what you're describing and post it here shortly.
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0 mrxinu over 4 years ago in reply to mrxinu

That worked just fine for me.
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