PORTAL - DASHBOARD API via HTTP

Products

• Network Observability

Issue/Introduction

Port used with non-SLL GET connections ‘<pc host name>:8181/rest/dashboards’ does not seem to be working.  The user UI is currently working at SSL ‘<pc host name>:8182/pc/desktop

Environment

Performance Management - all versions

Cause

It was determined that the REST API (port 8182) has a self-signed SSL certificate and the work-around consists of disabling the SSL verification (screenshot below). In the future, we will put the same UI certificate (port 8382) on both ports. Both ports require basic authentication, and the REST API needs a local account (non-LDAP) to authenticate to REST. The dashboard API will allow validation of branch office tiers, circuit ids, devices, interfaces, and circuit counts

Resolution

Get the page ID from the URL of the dashboard you want to access via REST without SSL

https://hostname.domain.com:8182/pc/center/webservice/dashboards/<PageID>

Turn off SSL certificate verification in your REST client

 

Additional Information

https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/ca-enterprise-software/it-operations-management/dx-netops/23-3/Performance-Monitoring-with-DX-Performance-Management/apis/performance-center-rest-web-services/dashboards-web-service.html