allow plugin to do url auth with body and headers

[yosiasz]

Greetings,

working with centreon rest api. The feature I would like to request is add ability to use an authentication url in the list of authentication choices

https://docs.centreon.com/docs/api/rest-api-v1/#authentication

Unless there already is a way of doing that.

Amazing plugin!

Thanks

[yesoreyeram]

Hi. I am not sure if there is any standard around this. Bit tricky to support this. There are few outstanding questions..

• What value the authenticate request returns? How to parse the response? What to extract and where to pass? ( like headers, bearer token etc )..
• How frequently the token timeouts before retry.
• How to differentiate the token expiry and invalid token? ( for retry purposes )

Happy to implement a generic authentication mechanism if we found clarity around this. Doesn't make any sense designing this feature just to target centreon.

[yosiasz]

Hi. I am not sure if there is any standard around this. Bit tricky to support this. There are few outstanding questions..

• What value the authenticate request returns? How to parse the response? What to extract and where to pass? ( like headers, bearer token etc )..

Response is
{
"authToken": "NTc1MDU3MGE3M2JiODIuMjA4OTA2OTc="
}

• How frequently the token timeouts before retry.

Checking with centreon

• How to differentiate the token expiry and invalid token? ( for retry purposes )

Good question, will ask centreon

Happy to implement a generic authentication mechanism if we found clarity around this. Doesn't make any sense designing this feature just to target centreon.

I agree! Maybe they need to get something more robust

Thanks

[yosiasz]

for now I just wrote my own node api to do the work for me, plug it into a grafana variable with inifinity plugin and it works

const form = new FormData();
    form.append("username", 'jazz'); //fake :)
    form.append('password', 'circleof5th'); //fake :)
    try {
      const url = 'http://your.centreon.ip.or.FQDN/centreon/api/index.php?action=authenticate';
      const response = await fetch(url, {method: 'POST', body: form});     
      const data = await response.json() 
      return res.json(data);
    } catch (e) {
      throw e.response ? e.response.body.message : e;
    }

[yosiasz]

They say about an hour ttl. They dont provide a timestamp value unfortunately

[rootolo]

Hi,
could you describe with more details how to configure infinity plugin to use it with Centreon ?

Thanks a million
Davide

for now I just wrote my own node api to do the work for me, plug it into a grafana variable with inifinity plugin and it works

const form = new FormData();
    form.append("username", 'jazz'); //fake :)
    form.append('password', 'circleof5th'); //fake :)
    try {
      const url = 'http://your.centreon.ip.or.FQDN/centreon/api/index.php?action=authenticate';
      const response = await fetch(url, {method: 'POST', body: form});     
      const data = await response.json() 
      return res.json(data);
    } catch (e) {
      throw e.response ? e.response.body.message : e;
    }