Identity and Access Management

Using SailPoint IdentityNow v3 API’s with PowerShell

Update: Oct 2019. Leveraging the SailPoint IdentityNow API's is now easier using the SailPoint IdentityNow PowerShell Module. 
Also see this post for how to generate v2 and v3 API credentials.

The SailPoint IdentityNow SaaS product is evolving. I’ve previously posted about integrating with the IdentityNow API’s using PowerShell;

IdentityNow now has v3 API’s which are essentially the v2 and non-Published API’s with the added benefit of being able to obtain an oAuth token from a new oAuth Token endpoint. Unlike the v2 process for enabling API integration, v3 currently requires that SailPoint generate and provide you with the ClientID and Secret. This Compass document (at the very bottom) indicates that this will be the preferred method for API access moving forward.

The process to get an oAuth Token the process is;

  • Generate Credentials using your IdentityNow Admin Username and Password as detailed in my v1 Private API post
    • Lines 1-12
  • Use the credentials from the step above in the oAuth token request
  • Use the ClientID and Secret as Basic AuthN to the Token endpoint
  • Obtain an oAuth Token contained in the resulting $Global:v3Token variable

Authentication Script

Update:

  • Line 2 with your Org name
  • Line 5 with your Admin Login Name
  • Line 6 with your Admin Password
  • Line 15 with your SailPoint supplied ClientID
  • Line 16 with your SailPoint supplied Secret

See the gist on github.

Your resulting token will then look like this;

Using the v3 oAuth Access Token

So far I’ve found that I can use the oAuth Token to leverage the v2 and non-published API’s simply by using the JWT oAuth Token in the Header of the webrequest e.g

@{Authorization = "Bearer $($Global:v3Token.access_token)"}

See the gist on github.

Depending on which API you are interacting with you may also require Content-Type e.g

@{Authorization = "Bearer $($Global:v3Token.access_token)"; "Content-Type" = "application/json"}

Summary

Talk to your friendly SailPoint Support Rep and get your v3 API ClientID and Secret and discard this previous hack of scraping the Admin Portal for the oAuth Token saving a few hundred lines of code.

Darren Robinson

Bespoke learnings from a Microsoft Identity and Access Management Architect using lots of Microsoft Identity Manager, Azure Active Directory, PowerShell, SailPoint IdentityNow and Lithnet products and services.

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