Postman Collection

Postman is a popular tool used to test HTTP Requests to API endpoints. AOS-CX offers a Postman collection and environment that you can use to test REST APIs with AOS-CX switches which is available here.

Getting Started with AOS-CX Postman Collection

1. Go to the AOS-CX Postman Workspace. You can do this from the Postman website or application, which can be installed from here.
2. Within the workspace, click on the AOS-CX collection which is pinned on the workspace's overview page. This will take you to the AOS-CX collection and set the AOS-CX ENV as the active environment of the collection.

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Postman Definitions

• A collection is a set of API endpoints or requests, along with each endpoint's authorization type, parameters, headers, request bodies, tests, and settings grouped together.
• A environment is a set of one or more variables that you can reference when sending requests or writing test script in Postman.

3. Fork the AOS-CX collection and AOS-CX ENV environment to your personal Postman workspace. This will enable you to make API requests to AOS-CX switches using this Postman collection

Making API calls

Once you have successfully forked the AOS-CX collection and AOS-CX ENV environment to your personal workspace, please follow the below steps to make API calls to your AOS-CX switch with Postman:

1. Within your personal workspace, select the Environments tab and add values for the following variables in the AOS-CX ENV:

2. Once the valid values are set, save the environment, and please set the AOS-CX ENV as the active environment for your workspace.
3. Click on the Collections tab and select AOS-CX collection. You should now be able to make API calls to Aruba Central from your Postman Collection. The collection automatically handles the login step & stores the session cookie under the token variable in the AOS-CX ENV, so subsequent API calls can be made to the device until logout.