topic Re: Firepower FDM API Error in Network Security

Firepower FDM API Error

latenaite2011 — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 17:23:41 GMT

Hey everyone,

Getting the following error while trying to launch the FDM API Explorer (trying to change the time zone):

I tried, https://x.x.x.x/api/api-explorer:

{"message":"Unauthorized","status_code":401}

I am running version 7.2.5-208.

Thanks!

Latenaite

Re: Firepower FDM API Error

Mark Elsen — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 10:22:30 GMT

- You will need to provide an authenticating sequence first ; checkout :
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/firepower/ftd-api/guide/ftd-rest-api/auth-ftd-rest-api.html#task_D3DF4A67A0554CF587C0193906435E0F

Re: Firepower FDM API Error

latenaite2011 — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 22:39:18 GMT

Thank you M. for this suggestion. Seems pretty length and complicated to
make a small change.

I am wondering if not having the correct time zone would impact the
Firepower in some way if it uses FQDN on the firepower access policies,
specifically this would be for Office 365 applications.

Currently having some intermittently issues access emails.

thanks!

Re: Firepower FDM API Error

latenaite2011 — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 12:48:19 GMT

Hey Marce1000,

Thanks a lot for your suggestion and sorry for the delay in responding.

Did further troubleshooting and it appears that the time in the FDM GUI is correct but in the CLI console, the time and timezone are off so not sure what the Firepower uses for resolving queries on DNS and passing data traffic from client to server (dealing with TLS and certification traffic and know that the date and time need to be correct for these types of traffic to work).

With the time off in CLI, just wondering if this would impact the traffic at all and if so, how can I change the time and timezone in CLI? (just discussed with someone and the API Explorer may just change the FDM GUI's settings and not the CLI.

thanks much in advance,