API_key request login failed

[Sarta92]

Hi,

I testing your sdk and there is a problem with API_key request.

def main():
    api_server = "10.0.20.254"
    server_port = 8443
    client_args = APIClientArgs(server=api_server, port=server_port)
    api_key="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx=="
    with APIClient(client_args) as client:   
        # login to server:
        login_res = client.login_with_api_key(api_key)
        if login_res.success is False:
            print("Login failed: {}".format(login_res.error_message))
            exit(1)

I have this error :
Login failed: APIResponse received a response which is not a valid JSON.

I tested with the original port (443) it's the same.
I tested the API_key on the MGMT locally and it's works.

With client.login(username,password) work fine.

Can you help me please ?

[chkp-orso]

Can you please share the error and the api.elg (please send to orso@checkpoint.com)?

[razron]

Getting a similar issue on a Red Hat 8 server using the python36 included with the OS. The same script works fine on a older Red Hat 6 server.

[PickleG]

Four years later, and api_key support appears to still be broken. Any chance of getting the tool updated? And the example scripts ?

[chkp-edenbr]

Hi @PickleG ,
Our SDK has a simple example script creating a group using api-key on login https://github.com/CheckPointSW/cp_mgmt_api_python_sdk/blob/master/examples_python3/add_group_with_api_key.py
Does this fail for you? If so please share what the failure error is and the api.elg that can be found in $MDS_FWDIR/log/ (send to edenbr@checkpoint.com)

[infused-kim]

I was getting the same error, but solved it by adding cloud_mgmt_id to APIClientArgs.

from cpapi import APIClient, APIClientArgs

api_key = 'XXX'
api_server = 'XXX'
cloud_mgmt_id = '6b109bc8-f7c6-40cd-8732-c5c68e6bedba'  # not real
client_args = APIClientArgs(
    server=api_server,
    cloud_mgmt_id=cloud_mgmt_id,
    api_version='2',
)

with APIClient(client_args) as client:
    login_res = client.login_with_api_key(api_key)
    print(login_res)

    resp = client.api_call("show-gateways-and-servers")
    print(resp)