Forward API

Just posting up a simple Python script that allows you to make API calls from behind a proxy that also requires authentication.I have capitalised things that you need to customise.  Of course it isn’t good practice to have usernames and passwords in your script so this is just for illustrative purposes.import requestsimport base64api_user = "YourApiUser"api_pass = "YourApiPassword"api_creds = api_user + ":" + api_passapi_bytes = api_creds.encode("ascii")api_encoded = base64.b64encode(api_bytes)print(api_encoded)api_string = api_encoded.decode("ascii")proxies = { "http": "http://YourProxyUser:YourProxyPassword@ProxyServerIp:ProxyPort", "https": http://YourProxyUser:YourProxyPassword@ProxyServerIp:ProxyPort",}try: response = requests.get("https://fwd.app/api/networks", proxies=proxies, headers={"Authorization" : "Basic " + api_string}) print(response.json())except requests.exceptions.ProxyError as e: print("Proxy error:", e) 

Hello Forward Networks!I have a question regarding if it's possible to add support to resolve FQDNs in the Path Search API? Or would we have to rely on our own DNS servers to make the resolutions first to then add the discovered IP Address to the source or destination. Can it be possible for Forward Networks to model FQDNs as independent objects? Apologies if this seems like a silly ask!Thank you

need to get api nodes url

We currently use Ansible playbooks to add or delete network devices to our various NMS tools. I want to add Forward Networks to this job so newly added devices or old devices being removed are part of this automation. When FN discovers a device it appears to use sysName for the “Name” of the device. The API however requires me to provide the name value. Is there anyway to just use the management IP to add it to FN and have FN set the name like it does during its own discovery?

Keeping your network source of truth accurate is critical in cloud environments that evolve rapidly. Forward Networks’ cloud modeling capabilities make it easier to understand your network state, but manual snapshot collections for every change can be time-consuming. To solve this, I recently built an automated workflow using AWS EventBridge to trigger Forward Networks’ cloud snapshot collections for relevant AWS network changes. In this post, I’ll share how to set up this integration, including tips to limit the number of collections and keep costs within the AWS Free Tier. The Challenge AWS environments experience frequent changes, such as:• Creating or deleting VPCs.• Modifying route tables or DirectConnect links.• Updating Elastic Load Balancers. Manually capturing snapshots for every change isn’t practical, and triggering collections for every event might overwhelm your workspace. I wanted a solution that:1. Automates snapshot collection for specific, relevant changes.2. Limits un

Hi Forward Networks team, I am looking at the API, specifically the call to get a device's data files.I can get the files for a single device at a time by just putting in the hostname in the parameters, however I was wondering if there is a parameter which will allow me to pull from multiple devices at once.For example lets say I want to pull from devices ABC, DEF, GHIorI want to pull from every device that starts with ABC*Is this something that can be done?Or would another possibility be to create a separate group of devices which includes all the devices I want to pull from and then just run the GET call on that device group. Kind regards,Sebastian

Hello,I have a question when using the Search Path API.Could we get an elaboration on the meaning of that “DELIVERED_TO_INCORRECT_LOCATION” forward outcome status, such as why it appears and if there’s anything we can do to address the “INCORRECT_LOCATION” part, if it’s necessary?I presume the status means that somewhere along the routing, it somehow ended up at a destination Forward Networks didn’t expect. But I just wanted to know if there was any more to it.Thanks!

How can i collect below information from Forward Network via API for Network devices. ?• IP address,• MAC address• Interface details• Device Name• Subnet details1.Which API should be used to get the above information? In the documentation, I see an API to get           networks/ Network collection/ devices  ;2.Is there a single API call that can pull the above information, or are there multiple API calls?3.If it's one API call, what's the Max pagination limit?4.Can you please provide a Sample API  or a Postman export to make an API call.