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This blog will discuss the procedure to use REST API to administer the Log Analysis 1.3.5 data model by running curl command from command line:

Step 1: Get Ltpatoken2

The command is:
curl -c cookie-jar.txt -X GET -k -i "https:// <LA_SERVER_IP> or <FQDN>: 9987/Unity/j_security_check?j_username=unityadmin&j_password=<unityadmin password> &action=Go"

For example, if you <FQDN> is laserver.domain1.com

curl -c cookie-jar.txt -X GET -k -i "https://laserver.domain1.com:9987/Unity/j_security_check?j_username=unityadmin&j_password=unityadmin&action=Go"
 

The following file will be produced in the same directory where you execute the above command:
1. cookie-jar.txt

  

Step 2. Get CSRFToken
 

The command is:
curl -L -b cookie-jar.txt -c cookie-search.txt -X GET -k -i "https://<LA_SERVER_IP> or <FQDN>:9987/Unity/j_security_check?j_username=unityadmin&j_password=<unityadmin password>&action=Go" |awk '{ print strftime("%c: "), $0; fflush(); }'| awk -F': ' '/var sclaidtoken =/' >> token.txt
 

For example:
curl -L -b cookie-jar.txt -c cookie-search.txt -X GET -k -i "https://laserver.domain1.com:9987/Unity/j_security_check?j_username=unityadmin&j_password=unityadmin&action=Go" |awk '{ print strftime("%c: "), $0; fflush(); }'| awk -F': ' '/var sclaidtoken =/' >> token.txt

The following file will be produced on the directory where you ran this command:
1. cookie-search.txt
2. token.txt

Step 3: Execute the action required.

Visit this page for instruction on executing the action required.
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSPFMY_1.3.5/com.ibm.scala.doc/admin/iwa_rest_services_api_ovw.html

For example, you want to list all the Data source, then you would visit this page after clicking Data sources link from the above page:
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSPFMY_1.3.5/com.ibm.scala.doc/admin/iwa_rest_api_logsources_c.html


The instructions to list all the Data source from the above link are:
https://<server>:<port>/Unity/Logsources?pattern=*
 

You would then perform this action:
curl -i -k -b cookie-search.txt -X GET "https://laserver.domain1.com:9987/Unity/Logsources?pattern=*"

An example of output is as below. This information shows that I have 2 Data sources currently, Test and db2test:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
X-Powered-By: Servlet/3.0
Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
Content-Language: en-US
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2019 08:35:13 GMT

[{"logsource_pk":1,"name":"Test","description":"","tag_id":4,"service_topology":""},{"logsource_pk":2,"name":"db2test","description":"","tag_id":4,"service_topology":""}]