topic Re: Using the AuthList without knowing the timezone in Controllers

Using the AuthList without knowing the timezone

orp — Mon, 26 Apr 2021 14:49:04 GMT

I want to write code able to get all active monitoring sessions an hour back (using the

Session/ActiveList API endpoint), without hardcoding the timezone. Is there any way to get the configured timezone from the API to make this a generic code?

Re: Using the AuthList without knowing the timezone

Alexander Stevenson — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 20:57:33 GMT

Can you please clarify which Cisco product and API(s) you are using?

Re: Using the AuthList without knowing the timezone

orp — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 07:05:38 GMT

I'm using the ISE monitoring API. I want to get all the active sessions from the last hour, but don't know the ISE's configured timezone. I tried always using UTC, but find it's often configured to local time which causes me to actually query a future time and never get results.

Re: Using the AuthList without knowing the timezone

Alexander Stevenson — Mon, 10 May 2021 22:18:10 GMT

I see. Well, we need the API to give up a timestamp. I know the ISE API set has something called the Authentication Status API Call (about 1/3 of the way down the page here). This will return this parameter (among others):

name=”acs_timestamp”

Time stamp that is associated with the Cisco ISE authentication request

So you can use the ISE API to get the timestamp and work with it that way.

Re: Using the AuthList without knowing the timezone

orp — Wed, 12 May 2021 11:05:50 GMT

But then I would need a certain MAC to give the API call, no? And I don't know what the last sessions to be authenticated are.