PowerShell: Obtaining information about objects, user authentication

Introduced in 8.7

Updated in 2021.1

You can use PowerShell scripts to retrieve information about specific Alloy Navigator objects using a GET query. The script below retrieves all fields for the object with ID = T000027. User authentication is used.

Copy the script and replace the placeholders with your actual API UR L and the credentials of an Alloy Navigator technician account.

NOTE: To get the proper output, make sure that the ticket T000027 exists in your database; otherwise, replace the sample ID with the ID of any other existing ticket or another Alloy Navigator object.

$ApiUrl = 'http://API_URL'	# API URL without trailing /, i.e. http://example.com/api

$username = 'your_username'	# technician username

$password = 'your_password'	# technician password

$postParams = @{ 'grant_type' = 'password';    'username' = $username; 'password' = $password;}

$htmlResponse = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "$ApiUrl/token" -Method POST -Body $postParams

$token = (ConvertFrom-Json $htmlResponse.Content).access_token

$HtmlResponse = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "$ApiUrl/object/T000027" `

	-Method GET `

	-Headers @{ 'authorization' = "bearer $token"; 'content-type' = 'application/json';    }

$htmlResponse

Related Information

Sample PowerShell scripts for Alloy Navigator administrator

Obtaining information about objects

Authenticating users