HCX has a good API and also has an ‘API Explorer’ web UI to help you start your HCX coding journey.
Access the API Explorer with the following URL https://<HCX SERVER FQDN>/hybridity/docs/index.html
You then need pick the HCX flavor, in my lab I typically pick HCX Connector.
Each task can be expanded, you then have a ‘Try it out’ button. The required headers and example body are provided, these can be edited to suit your environment.
Note – Before you can ‘try it out’ you need to get a ‘x-hm-authorization‘ token, this acts as your method of authentication rather than Basic user ID and Password.
This token can provide elusive in the UI, I have documented the process to get the token via the API in another blog.
In the UI you may need to use something like Dev Tools in Chrome to view the APIs being fired when you login and extract the token from the Headers as shown in the example below:
The ‘x-hm-authorization’ token can be pasted into the Authenticate window for each API in API Explorer:
Once Authenticated, you may also need to also provide the HCX Manager FQDN and or Payload content.
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