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ISE API noob. Having trouble creating endpoint via the API with Python

ab23 — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 14:48:30 GMT

I'm trying to create an endpoint via the API and assign it to a specific group and can't figure out where I'm going wrong. Can someone give me a hint?

ISE_LAB_URL="https://serverurl.com:9060/ers/"

CONFIG_ENDPOINT_URL="config/endpoint"

CONFIG_ENDPOINT_GROUP = "config/endpointgroup/"

#headers

headers = {

"Content-Type": "application/json",

"Accept": "application/json"

}

ERSEndPoint = {

"name" : "Test Import1",

"description" : "Test import device1",

"mac" : "00:DE:AD:BE:EF:10",

"groupId" : "20e24",

"staticGroupAssignment" : true,

"staticGroupAssignmentDefined" : true

}

response = requests.post(ISE_LAB_URL + CONFIG_ENDPOINT_URL, data=ERSEndPoint, headers=headers, auth=API_ERS_USER)

print((json.dumps(response.json(), indent=4, sort_keys=True)),"_" * 100)

I run the command and then I'll get an output saying "true" isn't defined.

ISE_ADD_ENDPOINT.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users//Python/ISE_ADD_ENDPOINT.py", line 25, in <module>
"staticGroupAssignment" : true,
NameError: name 'true' is not defined

So I'll remove the two lines with "true" in them just to see what happens and I'll get this error:

/ISE_ADD_ENDPOINT.py
{
"ERSResponse": {
"link": {
"href": "https://:9060/ers/config/endpoint",
"rel": "related",
"type": "application/xml"
},
"messages": [
{
"code": "Application resource validation exception",
"title": "Invalid JSON Input: Unrecognized token 'name': was expecting \n at [Source: java.io.StringReader@11c71876; line: 1, column: 5]",
"type": "ERROR"
}
],
"operation": "POST-create-endpoint"
}
} ________________________________________________________________________________

Re: ISE API noob. Having trouble creating endpoint via the API with Py

thomas — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 21:52:45 GMT

See for this exact example and more:

We also have https://cs.co/ise-youtube with multiple webinars on how to do ISE REST APIs like :
▶ ISE REST APIs Introduction
You can look at the Show Notes and jump ahead to the topic(s) you want.

I also have a GitHub repository with all of the examples in the webinar for you to copy and paste :
https://github.com/1homas/20221004_ISE_REST_APIs_Introduction

Since you appear to be using Python, you may also want
https://github.com/1homas/ISE_Python_Scripts

When submitting code, please use the Insert Code option so it is easier to read:

This is what you want:

curl --include --insecure --location \ --header 'Accept: application/json' \ --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \ --user $ISE_USERNAME:$ISE_PASSWORD \ --request POST https://$ISE_HOSTNAME/ers/config/endpoint \ --data ' { "ERSEndPoint" : { "name" : "Test Endpoint", "description" : "My new endpoint", "mac" : "00:01:02:03:04:05", "groupId" : "a1bb2030-8c01-11e6-996c-525400b48521", "staticGroupAssignment" : true } }'

Re: ISE API noob. Having trouble creating endpoint via the API with Py

ab23 — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 23:03:54 GMT

Thank you Thomas. Appreciate the response.

Re: ISE API noob. Having trouble creating endpoint via the API with Py

ab23 — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 22:05:49 GMT

Fixed my own issue.