fireREST 0.1.1

Python api client for firepower management center

FireREST

A simple wrapper for firepower management center restful api.

Features

• Authentication and automatic session refresh
• Rate-limit handling with automatic retry operation
• Automatic squashing of paginated api payloads
• Sanitization of api payloads received via GET operations and used for PUT/POST operations
• Debug logging for api calls using logger module
• Result caching for various operations

Requirements

• Python >= 3.7

Quickstart

Installation

pip install fireREST

Import api client

from fireREST import Client

Authentication

FireREST uses basic authentication to authenticate with fmc. In case your authentication token times out the api client will automatically try to re-authenticate 3 times and handle any intermediate authentication exceptions.

Basic Authentication

client = Client(hostname='fmc.example.com', username='firerest', password='Cisco123')

Helper

A variety of helper functions can be used to translate object names to their respective UUID values. Since fmc rest api uses uuid values this is neccessary to find pre-existing objects by the name defined in fmc.

Object Name to ID

name = 'NET_OBJ'
uuid = client.get_object_id_by_name('network', name)

Access Control Policy Name to ID

name = 'DEV-ACCESS-CONTROL-POLICY'
uuid = client.get_acp_id_by_name(name)

Access Control Policy Rule Name to ID

acp = 'DEV-ACCESS-CONTROL-POLICY'
acp_rule = 'PERMIT-INTERNET-ACCESS'
uuid = client.get_object_id_by_name(acp, acp_rule)

Objects

Create Network Object

net_obj = {
    'name': 'NetObjViaAPI',
    'value': '198.18.1.0/24',
}

response = client.create_object('network', net_obj)

Get Network Object

obj_name = 'NetObjViaAPI'
obj_id = client.get_object_id_by_name('network', 'NetObjViaAPI')
obj_payload = client.get_object('network', obj_id)

Update Network Object

obj_name = 'NetObjViaAPI'
obj_id = client.get_object_id_by_name('network', 'NetObjViaAPI')

net_obj = {
    'id': obj_id,
    'name': 'NetObjViaAPI',
    'value': '198.18.2.0/24',
}

response = client.update_object('network', obj_id, net_obj)

Delete Network Object

obj_name = 'NetObjViaAPI'
obj_id = client.get_object_id_by_name('network', 'NetObjViaAPI')
response = client.delete_object('network', obj_id)

Authors

Oliver Kaiser ([e-mail])

License

GNU General Public License v3.0 or later.

See LICENSE for the full text.