Cant authenticate vManage API sandbox

[MapleMagician]

I'm getting the following error when trying to connect to the SDWAN sandbox via python...

Exception has occurred: ConnectionError

HTTPSConnectionPool(host='sandboxsdwan.cisco.com', port=8443): Max retries exceeded with url: /j_security_check (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x00000242865FB5B0>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 11001] getaddrinfo failed'))

Judging by the error it seems like the URL may be wrong. I also tried using the creds shown in the sandbox: https://sandbox-sdwan-1.cisco.com. devnetuser/RG!_Yw919_83 and this did not work either.

Here is my code:

import requests

import json

base_url = "https://sandboxsdwan.cisco.com:8443/"

auth_endpoint = "j_security_check"

login_body = {

    "j_username":"devnetuser",

    "j_password":"Cisco123!"

}

sesh = requests.session()

login_response = sesh.post(

    url=f"{base_url}{auth_endpoint}", data=login_body, verify=False

)

What am I doing wrong?

[bigevilbeard · Accepted solution]

@MapleMagician try this code https://developer.cisco.com/codeexchange/github/repo/bigevilbeard/Getting_Started_SDWAN

With 19.2 (and later) vManage version, API authentication is enhanced to include token in the POST/PUT/DELETE request Headers.

You can follow this Learning Lab here  -- https://developer.cisco.com/learning/modules/sd-wan and the the API docs https://developer.cisco.com/docs/sdwan/

Hope this helps.