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Miguel Jackson
Miguel Jackson

Reputation: 1

IBM App Connect Rest RequestNode; Basic authorization

Use IBM app connect to create a message flow. Within the message Flow, an API endpoint is being consumed but security is enabled on the endpoint. so I want to know how to add the username and password for the Request Node that connects to the API.

Didn't try anything yet because I don't know which root to take

Upvotes: 0

Views: 586

Answers (1)

andreasmartens
andreasmartens

Reputation: 108

The basic "task" you need to follow is this one: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/app-connect/12.0?topic=security-configuring-identity-propagation, the part you want to enable is the bit where it says an output or request node can be configured to send a locally stored identity in the output message by configuring it with a security profile with propagation enabled, and the local identity referenced.

So you'll want to register the u/p in the credential store (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/app-connect/12.0?topic=security-configuring-identity-propagation#provide) (I'd suggest following the links to using the mqsicredentials approach rather than mqsisetdbparms as it provides better protection of your passwords, but ultimately it's all stored on disk in either case. Specifically, if you look in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/app-connect/12.0?topic=commands-mqsicredentials-command you want to register a rest credential type for an External REST API).

then once you've created a security profile referencing the stored credential, you can use that Security Profile from any node that needs to be able to use that particular identity to connect to a remote endpoint.

Hope this helps, I might have got one or two parameters wrong as I'm used to using the basic HTTP nodes rather than the REST nodes built on top.

Upvotes: 0

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