Unable to Access infoblox API from CLI (Curl/Automation) [ Edited ]

[#1]

Hi Team,

While doing some automation tasks, we noticed the infoblox API is not accessible from cli using curl or other tools. (We are not sure this is the right issue yet; please see scenario below)

$ curl -k -s \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -X GET \
  --user username:password \
  "https://INFOBLOX_IP/wapi/v2.9/record:rpz:a?zone=my-list07&_return_as_object=1&name=exampleurl.org.my-list07" 

- API is working from a browser window - we can access WAPI after username/password authentication.
- But the same API is not able to access from another machine using curl (auth is happening but says Forbidden)

- Firewall/route are fine as the API is resonding with Error message after Authentication (Forbidden)

Any idea if there is any whitelisting of source IP to access the API ?

Note: We have tested with another test infoblox machine, and no such issues. So, this is something to do with current production infoblox node (we guess)

Thank you in advance.

[#2]

Can you please post the curl example

Change your password to "password"

[#3]

Hi @SBaksh,

Thank you for replying. 

I missed to add that in hurry, updated the question with `curl` sample.

Thank you in adavnce.

[#4]

At first glance your example looks good.  I ran it against my gridmaster and it returns an empty list (which is what I expected).

Can you check if there is an ACL configured on the grid manager, which prevents access from your IP address:

Also check if your account is in a group that doesn't have API permissions:

Or your account doesn't have access to RPZ records, either by not given access, or by denying access:

[#5]

Thank you so much @MRichard,
Sure, I will check this and update back.

[#6]

@MRichard, Thank you.

Here see the update:

- We have checked all those items and everything found normal.

- Luckily we noticed some automated proxy settings in system which was causing this issue !!!. So tried with -x "" in curl and it worked. 

thank you again for sharing those trubleshooting tips. 

#staysafe