topic AXLToolKit - Bad Response - permissions? in Management

AXLToolKit - Bad Response - permissions?

verastar — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 16:54:54 GMT

I have recently found this tool and plan to use it to generate reports on the success of UI Automation. I am however unable to connect. There seems to be an issue with my login but I have rights in the front end. Do I need different permissions to run this?

The script i'm using:

java -cp .\classes;.\lib\saaj-api.jar;.\lib\saaj-impl.jar;.\lib\mail.jar;.\lib\activation.jar;.\lib\jaxm-api.jar;.\lib\jaxm-runtime.jar;.\lib\xercesImpl.jar;.\lib\xml-apis.jar AxlSqlToolkit -username=MYCUCfrontendMLOGION -password=MYCUCMfrontPASSWORD -host=REDACTED

The return:

<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:ns="http://www.cisco.com/AXL/API/12.5"><SOAP-ENV:Header/><SOAP-ENV:Body><ns:executeSQLQuery sequence="1619192521581"><sql>select * from callmanager</sql></ns:executeSQLQuery></SOAP-ENV:Body></SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
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Apr 23, 2021 4:42:02 PM com.sun.xml.internal.messaging.saaj.client.p2p.HttpSOAPConnection post
SEVERE: SAAJ0008: Bad Response; Unauthorized
com.sun.xml.internal.messaging.saaj.SOAPExceptionImpl: com.sun.xml.internal.messaging.saaj.SOAPExceptionImpl: Bad response: (401Unauthorized
at com.sun.xml.internal.messaging.saaj.client.p2p.HttpSOAPConnection.call(Unknown Source)
at AxlSqlToolkit.sendMessage(AxlSqlToolkit.java:150)
at AxlSqlToolkit.execute(AxlSqlToolkit.java:211)
at AxlSqlToolkit.main(AxlSqlToolkit.java:256)
Caused by: com.sun.xml.internal.messaging.saaj.SOAPExceptionImpl: Bad response: (401Unauthorized
at com.sun.xml.internal.messaging.saaj.client.p2p.HttpSOAPConnection.post(Unknown Source)
... 4 more

CAUSE:

com.sun.xml.internal.messaging.saaj.SOAPExceptionImpl: Bad response: (401Unauthorized
at com.sun.xml.internal.messaging.saaj.client.p2p.HttpSOAPConnection.post(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.xml.internal.messaging.saaj.client.p2p.HttpSOAPConnection.call(Unknown Source)
at AxlSqlToolkit.sendMessage(AxlSqlToolkit.java:150)
at AxlSqlToolkit.execute(AxlSqlToolkit.java:211)
at AxlSqlToolkit.main(AxlSqlToolkit.java:256)
com.sun.xml.internal.messaging.saaj.SOAPExceptionImpl: com.sun.xml.internal.messaging.saaj.SOAPExceptionImpl: Bad response: (401Unauthorized
at com.sun.xml.internal.messaging.saaj.client.p2p.HttpSOAPConnection.call(Unknown Source)
at AxlSqlToolkit.sendMessage(AxlSqlToolkit.java:150)
at AxlSqlToolkit.execute(AxlSqlToolkit.java:211)
at AxlSqlToolkit.main(AxlSqlToolkit.java:256)
Caused by: com.sun.xml.internal.messaging.saaj.SOAPExceptionImpl: Bad response: (401Unauthorized
at com.sun.xml.internal.messaging.saaj.client.p2p.HttpSOAPConnection.post(Unknown Source)
... 4 more

CAUSE:

c:\axlcisco\axlsqltoolkit>

Re: AXLToolKit - Bad Response - permissions?

npetrele — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 17:13:44 GMT

I think you need to include a BASIC AUTH header, which is the base64 encoding of an application user's username and password (assuming the application user belongs to the right groups).

However, I have to ask, are you planning to build a Java application based on converting the WSDL to Java classes? I don't recommend that at all. It's very difficult to use and prone to be slow and buggy.

It's much easier, if you need to use Java, to pass SOAP requests, etc. I think that's what you're already doing, but I just wanted to make sure.

Re: AXLToolKit - Bad Response - permissions?

npetrele — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 17:29:38 GMT

Here are samples I pulled from the web. Two are REST operations, but this should give you the basic idea that it's an http header thing.

public class TestClient {
 
    public static void main(String[] args) throws MalformedURLException {
        URL url = new URL("http://localhost:9993/ws/hello?wsdl");
        QName qname = new QName("http://authentication.jaxws.com/", "HelloWorldImplService");
  
        Service service = Service.create(url, qname);
        HelloWorldImpl hello = service.getPort(HelloWorldImpl.class);
        Map<String, Object> req_ctx =((BindingProvider)hello).getRequestContext();
        req_ctx.put(BindingProvider.ENDPOINT_ADDRESS_PROPERTY, "http://localhost:9993/ws/hello?wsdl");
        Map<String, List<String>> headers = new HashMap<String, List<String>>();
        headers.put("Username",Collections.singletonList("Username"));
        headers.put("Password", Collections.singletonList("Password"));
        req_ctx.put(MessageContext.HTTP_REQUEST_HEADERS, headers);
        System.out.println(hello.sayHello("username"));
    }
     
}

String encoding = Base64Encoder.encode(user + ":" + pwd);
HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost("http://host:post/test/login");
httpPost.setHeader(HttpHeaders.AUTHORIZATION, "Basic " + encoding);

System.out.println("executing request " + httpPost.getRequestLine());
HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(httpPost);
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.Base64;


public class HttpBasicAuth {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        try {
            URL url = new URL ("http://ip:port/login");
            String encoding = Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(("test1:test1").getBytes(‌"UTF‌-8"));

            HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
            connection.setRequestMethod("POST");
            connection.setDoOutput(true);
            connection.setRequestProperty  ("Authorization", "Basic " + encoding);
            InputStream content = (InputStream)connection.getInputStream();
            BufferedReader in   = 
                new BufferedReader (new InputStreamReader (content));
            String line;
            while ((line = in.readLine()) != null) {
                System.out.println(line);
            }
        } catch(Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

    }

}

Re: AXLToolKit - Bad Response - permissions?

dstaudt — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 18:31:51 GMT

The 401 response does seem to indicate the credentials/permissions are the issue. Testing the toolkit sample just now it seems to work for me.

If the credentials are you usual 'full admin' set, then those should work - not sure what might be going on. If not, check here to see if the correct role is assigned: https://developer.cisco.com/docs/axl/#!authentication/using-basic-authentication

Re: AXLToolKit - Bad Response - permissions?

verastar — Mon, 26 Apr 2021 09:02:06 GMT

Thank you.

Re: AXLToolKit - Bad Response - permissions?

verastar — Mon, 26 Apr 2021 09:05:08 GMT

Thank you. That's done it - The AXL permissions on my service account weren't set.

Is there a resource that lists all the tables/view in the schema? So that I can form my queries without trial and error.

Re: AXLToolKit - Bad Response - permissions?

verastar — Mon, 26 Apr 2021 11:59:48 GMT

For record, I've now foudn the Table list here : 14 CUCM Data Dictionary - AXL - Document - Cisco DevNet