Introduction

Open-AudIT has a JSON Restful API to be used both in the web interface and via JSON requests.

Open-AudIT's API

Open-AudIT's API is base upon http://jsonapi.org with the intention of providing simple and intuitive access in a manner familiar to developers.

In addition to this API, the web interface will use the same request format and supply some additional actions (eg: HTML forms for creating items).

Access Model

The API uses a cookie. You can retrieve a cookie by sending a POST request to the URL below, passing the username and password attributes along with their values:

http://{server}/open-audit/index.php/logon

POSTing data

When create a resource, you should issue a POST request, passing the required data.

When POSTing data, you must include an access token. An access token is generated upon every request, to obtain an access token, you could for example, make a GET request with an Accept: application/json HTTP header. Parse the response where you will find meta→access_token, that value can be used in subsequent POST requests, by placing it in the top level field field data[access_token].

The format of your data should be in the form:

data[attributes][ATTRIBUTE_NAME]

You should substitute the required column (eg, org_id) for ATTRIBUTE_NAME.

In the case where we store several fields (usually in JSON format) inside a BIGTEXT MySQL field (eg: credentials.credentials - the credentials column in the credentials table), you should use the format:

data[attributes][credentials][credentials][username]

Further examples are at the bottom of this page.

All endpoints also have a minimum list of required fields. These are:

Endpoint	Required Fields
applications	name, org_id
attributes	name, org_id, type, resource,value
baselines	name, org_id
buildings	name, org_id, location_id
clouds	name, org_id, type, credentials, options
clusters	name, org_id
collectors	name, org_id, type, host, community, username, password
connections	name, org_id
credentials	name, org_id, type, credentials
dashboards	name, org_id, options, sidebar
devices	name, org_id
discoveries	name, org_id, type
discovery_scan_options	name, org_id, ping, service_version, filtered\|open, filtered, timing, nmap_tcp_ports, nmap_udp_ports
fields	name, org_id, type
groups	name, org_id, sql
integrations	name, org_id, attributes, fields
ldap_servers	name, org_id, lang, host, port, secure, domain, type, version, use_auth, use_roles, refresh
licenses	name, org_id, org_descendants, purchase_count, match_string
locations	name, org_id
networks	name, org_id, network
orgs	name, parent_id
queries	name, org_id, sql, menu_category, menu_display
racks	name, org_id, ru_height
rack_devices	rack_id, device_id, position, height
roles	name, permissions
rules	name, org_id
scripts	name, org_id, options, based_on
summaries	name, org_id, table, column, menu_category
tasks	name, org_id, type, sub_resource_id, uuid, enabled, minute, hour, day_of_month, month,day_of_week
users	name, org_id, lang, roles, orgs
widgets	name, org_id, type

An example JSON POST body is below. This should be attached to the "data" form item.

{
  "access_token": "bbc0c85653fdc4b83d108cba7641bfcbbc77586dfb8f32d08973770a90fe",
  "type": "discoveries",
  "attributes": {
    "name": "My Test Discovery",
    "type": "subnet",
	"subnet": "192.169.1.150"
    "org_id": 1,
    "scan_options": {<removed for brevity>},
    "match_options": {<removed for brevity>},      
    }
  }
}

The Endpoints

At present, we have endpoints for nearly every collection. They are listed here - Collections.

Options

Format

Using the format option is useful when using a web browser but you wish to see the result in JSON format. Adding format=json achieves this. If you only want the actual data in JSON, format=json_data will do the trick. Normally a web browser will set its accept header to HTML, so in that case, we return the rendered page. Using an API to retrieve JSON you should set the accept header to "json/application". You can override this by providing the format query parameter in the URL. For example:

?format=<html|html_data|json|json_data|csv|highcharts|report|sql|table|xml>

We tend to use the Google Chrome extension called Postman for testing actual restful queries. You might like to install and test with that. http://www.getpostman.com.

Action

NOTE - Removed from 5.0.0.

When using the API the default action is determined according to the format and URL. You can override this by providing the 'action' option in the URL. An example of this is when creating a new item. You would normally use POST to /item but in the case of a web user, you need a web form to be able to fill out the item details. In that case, there is no facility for this in a typical JSON Restful API. We work around this by providing action=create in a GET request for the URL. IE - http://{server}/omk/open-audit/networks?action=create. The default action if nothing matches below is to return a collection of items.

API Routes

Request Method	ID	Resulting Function	Permission Required	URL Example	Notes
POST	n	create	{collection}::create	/{collection}	Insert a new {collection} entry.
GET	y	read	{collection}::read	/{collection}/{id}	Returns a {collection} details.
PATCH	y	update	{collection}::update	/{collection}/{id}	Update an attribute of a {collection} entry.
DELETE	y	delete	{collection}::delete	/{collection}/{id}	Delete a {collection} entry.
GET	n	collection	{collection}::read	/{collection}	Returns a list of {collection}.

Web Application Routes

Request Method	ID	Action	Resulting Function	Permission Required	URL Example	Notes
GET	n	create	create_form	{collection}::create	/{collection}/create	Displays a standard web form for submission to POST /{collection}.
GET	n	import	import_form	{collection}::create	/{collection}/import	Displays a standard web form for submission to POST /{collection}/import.
POST	n	import	import	{collection}::create	/{collection}/import	Import multiple {collection} using a CSV.
GET	y	execute	execute	(collection)::see below	/{collection}/{id}/execute	Some collections can be executed - queries, etc - see below.

Execute permissions required per endpoint

Endpoint	Permission
baselines	read
clouds	read
dashboards	read
database	update
discovery	update
groups	read
queries	read
summaries	read
tasks	read

Sort

To sort by a database column, use "sort={attribute}". To reverse sort, insert a minus, thus "sort=-{attribute}".

sort=[-]{attribute}

Current

NOTE - Removed from 5.0.0. Please use components.current=n or components.current=IN('y','n') instead (if required).

By default, only attributes with "current=y" are retrieved. To override this, set current as below.

current={y|n|all}

GroupBy

NOTE - Removed from 5.0.0.

groupby={attribute}

Limit

When requesting JSON, by default no limit is set.

When requesting screen display, the limit is set to 1000 by default.

limit={int}

Offset

The offset is the count of devices you wish to return data from.

offset={int}

Properties

The requested properties should be in a comma-separated list. Properties should be fully qualified - ie, system.hostname (not just hostname).

NOTE - From 5.0.0 onwards, the system table has been replace by the devices table - so devices.name, not system.name.

properties=system.id,system.name,system.status

You can also specify properties using the below format.

properties=["system.id","system.name","system.status"]

Filter

To filter by a property value, use the property name. Operators that should precede the value are !=, >, >=, <, <=, 'like' and '!like'. If no operator is specified, the default is =. Properties should be fully qualified - ie, system.hostname (not just hostname).

{attribute}=[operator]{value}

End Points

All endpoints URLs for prior to v5 are of the format http://{server}/omk/open-audit/{endpoint}

NOTE - From 5.0.0 all endpoint URLs are of the form - http://{server}/open-audit/index.php/{endpoint}

Devices

NOTE - From 5.0.0 the sub_resource item has been replaced by the components endpoint.

Type	Endpoint v4	v5
GET	^/system	^/devices	Return a collection of devices with the default set of columns from the system table (system.system_id, system.icon, system.man_type, system.hostname, system.domain, system.man_ip_address, system.man_description, system.man_os_family, system.man_status)
GET	^/system/{id}	^{/devices/{id}}	Return an individual devices details.
GET	^{/system?sub_resource={sub_resource name}}	^{/components?components.type={sub_resource name}}	To return all items in a sub_resource for a collection of devices. If you wanted all software you would use http://{server}/open-audit/index.php/devices?sub_resource=software
GET	^{/system/{id}?sub_resource={sub_resource name}}	^{/components?components.type={sub_resource name}&components.device_id={id}}	To return all items in a sub_resource for a specific device.
GET	^{/system/{id}?sub_resource={sub_resource name}&sub_resource_id={sub_resource id}}	^{/components/{sub_resource id}?components.type={sub_resource name}}	To return a specific sub_resource item.

Device sub_resource names / component types

NAME	NAME	NAME
^audit_log ^bios ^change_log ^credential ^disk ^dns ^edit_log ^ip ^log ^memory ^module ^monitor ^motherboard	^netstat ^network ^optical ^pagefile ^partition ^print_queue ^processor ^radio ^route ^san ^scsi ^server ^server_item	^service ^share ^software ^software_key ^sound ^task ^user ^user_group ^variable ^video ^vm ^windows

Examples

NOTE - Below are v5.0.0 and onward URLs.

NOTE #3 - You should substitute items in the URL enclosed in {} brackets with the relevant items for your environment (and do not include the actual brackets themselves!).

Retrieve all devices with the standard columns:

GET http://{server}/open-audit/index.php/devices

Retrieve all devices running Windows.

GET http://{server}/open-audit/index.php/devices?devices.os_group=Windows

Retrieve the first 10 devices running Windows ordered by hostname

GET http://{server}/open-audit/index.php/devices?devices.os_group=Windows&limit=10&sort=devices.hostname

Retrieve the properties id, ip, hostname, domain, type from all devices

GET http://{server}/open-audit/index.php/devices?properties=devices.id,devices.ip,devices.hostname,devices.domain,devices.type

Retrieve all details about the device with id 88.

GET http://{server}/open-audit/index.php/devices/88

Retrieve a list of devices in the 192.168.1.0/24 subnet

GET http://{server}/open-audit/index.php/devices?ip.network=192.168.1.0/24&properties=devices.id,devices.hostname,devices.domain,ip.ip

Retrieve a list of devices with OS Name like Windows 2008

GET http://{server}/open-audit/index.php/devices?devices.os_name=likeWindows 2008

CURL Examples

Logging in

curl --cookie-jar cookies.txt --form password=password --form username=admin http://{server}/open-audit/index.php/logon

Creating Credentials

curl -X POST -b cookies.txt http://{server}/open-audit/index.php/credentials -d "data[attributes][name]=test_creds&data[attributes][org_id]=1&data[attributes][type]=ssh&data[attributes][credentials][username]=my_new_user&data[attributes][credentials][password]=my_new_password"

Retrieving a List of Credentials

curl -X GET -b cookies.txt http://{server}/open-audit/index.php/credentials

Update attributes

NOTE - The curly brackets in the data filed should be used as-is (not replaced as per other examples above).

curl -X PATCH -b cookies.txt -d 'data={"data":{"id":"3","type":"devices","attributes":{"description":"Test Description"}}}' http://{server}/open-audit/index.php/devices/3