VNA - Make changes to Existing VNA Plugins: Connection URL, Proxy, Passwords, Tokens, etc.

Products

• Network Observability
• Virtual Network Assurance
• Spectrum

Issue/Introduction

Need to make edits to Existing Plugins.

For Example. Updating API Token for authentication.

Resolution

1. Access the swagger UI for VNA: https://<VNA-ServerName/IP>:8443/vna

2. Expand ADMIN

3. Run Below API to pull current plugin settings, once run click Download to Export to JSON for future reference.



4. Run Below API to pull template for plugin specified. Input pluginName for the plugin (reference JSON). - **Note - pluginName value is case sensitive!** - Watch out for leading and trailing spaces!

5. Copy response body to clipboard - (To be used in Step 7)

6. Run below API to reconfigure the existing plugin. Input pluginName and configId for the plugin (reference JSON) - **Note - pluginName and configId values is case sensitive!** - Watch out for leading and trailing spaces!

7. Replace the Request body with the template pulled from Step 5

8. Reference the plugin JSON and make any changes required to plugin settings

9. Execute API Call

Additional Information

All API Calls should come back with a HTTP 200 response message. If not, please check syntax.