Foglight REST API - Authentication error - "Method Not Allowed"

Hi Ravi,

What kinds of method(GET, POST etc) do you use for "login" API? The "login" API only support "POST" method, if you try it with other method(like "GET"), it will return "Method Not Allowed".

While using Postman, i used POST method but still it is throwing error "Method Not Allowed"

While using browser, i simply put the above URL in address box.

regards, Ravi

Hi Ravi,

For a user use Foglight RestAPI, you need have following

1. Create AuthToken for that user
2. That user must have API access rule in Foglight

This is good doc you can read https://www.quest.com/community/blogs/b/performance-monitoring/posts/foglight-rest-apis-introduction---java-and-python-sample-code-1237861345

And this is mt  postman setup

Hope this helps

-Lee

Finally it is working. thanks for all help and pointers shared with me which helped me to learn a lot and make it work.

For rest of community users (like me :) ) below are the issue and resolution.

From the Quest REST API documentation, 

• I didn't find what all supported headers should be there in PERL code to support the REST Call.
• No where was mentioned that authToken OR user/password need to be supplied as Request Body/Content.
• May be i missed in those things in documentation or due to as i have limited knowledge with Quest and PERL

Anyway, I tried POSTMAN and downloaded the QUEST collection and started working on it and then came to know about above issues and corrective actions and it worked afterwards. For community users, below is the short code for authentication:

use REST::Client;
use JSON qw(decode_json);
use Data::Dumper;
my $client = REST::Client->new(host => 'https://<Your Host>:<APIPort>/api/v1');
$req = "authToken=<Authentication Token Value>";
$headers = {
Accept => '*/*',
'Content-Type' => 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
};
$client->getUseragent()->ssl_opts(verify_hostname => 0);
$client->getUseragent()->ssl_opts(SSL_verify_mode => SSL_verify_NONE);
$client->POST('/security/login',$req,$headers);
print($client->responseCode());
print($client->responseContent());
exit();