Network Device API intro "Postman"

Playing around with the basics on network device API calls again.  Postman is a great tool to try things out interactively.  Works great for me as a Chrome plugin.

Kudos to Matt Oswalt for a great post on Nexus 9000 NX-API

Finally, a little bit of super generic Python for getting 'show version' from a switch:

import requests

import json

url='http://YOURIP/ins'

switchuser='USERID'

switchpassword='PASSWORD'

myheaders={'content-type':'application/json-rpc'}

payload=[

          {

                  "jsonrpc": "2.0",

                  "method": "cli",

                  "params": {

                             "cmd": "show version",

                                    "version": 1

                            },

                   "id": 1

           }

          ]

response = requests.post(url,data=json.dumps(payload), headers=myheaders,auth=(switchuser,switchpassword)).json()