Verify a REST API key from VMware

Environment

• Knox E-FOTA
• VMware
• Windows PowerShell ISE

Overview

If you created a REST API key in VMware, you can test your API key and account credentials with PowerShell ISE.

How to verify a REST API key from VMware

To test your REST API key:

1. Open Windows PowerShell ISE.

2. Create a new script.

3. Paste the following script, and enter values for userName, password, RestAPIKey, and vmwareServer:

$userName = ''
$password = ''
$RestAPIKey = ''

$vmwareServer = "https://"
$pagesize = 10

Function Get - BasicUserForAuth {
    Param([string] $func_username)
    $userNameWithPassword = $func_username
    $encoding = [System.Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes($userNameWithPassword)
    $encodedString = [Convert]::ToBase64String($encoding)
    Return "Basic " + $encodedString
}

Function Build - Headers {
    Param([string] $authorizationString, [string] $tenantCode, [string] $acceptType, [string] $contentType)
    $authString = $authorizationString
    $tcode = $tenantCode
    $accept = $acceptType
    $content = $contentType
    $header = @ {
        "Authorization" = $authString;
        "aw-tenant-code" = $tcode;
        "Accept" = $useJSON;
        "Content-Type" = $useJSON
    }
    Return $header
}

# # Login to AW section
$concateUserInfo = $userName + ":" + $password
$restUserName = Get - BasicUserForAuth($concateUserInfo)
$useJSON = "application/json"
$headers = Build - Headers $restUserName $RestAPIKey $useJSON $useJSON

#Get ALL devices that API rest account allowed to get
Clear - variable - Name "URIstring" - Force - EA SilentlyContinue
$URIstring = $vmwareServer + "/api/mdm/devices/search?" + "pagesize=" + $pagesize
$DeviceOutput = Invoke - RestMethod - Method Get - Uri $URIstring - Headers $headers

#display number of retrieved devices
@($DeviceOutput.devices).length

4. Press F5 to execute the script.

If your account credentials and REST API key are valid, the script returns the number of devices currently enrolled in VMware.