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Cato API with Gradio
Hello, During the "AMA about Cato API" webinar, you presented a demo of API usages with Gradio. Will you eventually share the code examples that you used to make these dashboards ? I would like to reproduce something similar (hit rules, detected applications by rules..) Regards, Pierre
API get statut Topology
Hello Cato team, I am looking for a solution to monitor certain statuses on your API. The objective is to obtain the status and counter "Connected," "Degraded," or "Disconnected" present in the topology. I am looking for the URL request that can provide this. For better understanding of the reason for this request, I use a ticketing tool that can make API requests. I use this to check the API statuses, and based on the results, open ITSM tickets. Thank for you time
You Ask a Good Question: Top 5 Applications Per Site, by Total Bandwidth
The Ask: I’d like to be able to see the top 5 applications, per site, by total bandwidth. Basically, this graph multiple times. API Guy answer: My solution is a multi-query approach. Step 1: This appStats query to get the list of site names and their total traffic: Step 2: Iterate over each site, calling an appStats() query for each one, with the site name as the filter. Here’s an example for one site: You will need to then calculate the percentages based on the total for each site from the first query.A simple example in Python
import json import ssl import urllib.parse import urllib.request headers = { "x-api-key": MY_API_KEY, "Content-Type": "application/json" } body = { "operationName": "accountSnapshot", "variables": {"accountID":MY_ACCOUNT_ID}, "query": ''' query accountSnapshot($accountID:ID!) { accountSnapshot(accountID:$accountID) { id } }''' } request = urllib.request.Request(url='https://api.catonetworks.com/api/v1/graphql2', data=json.dumps(body).encode("ascii"), headers=headers) response = urllib.request.urlopen(request, context=ssl._create_unverified_context()) print(json.loads(response.read().decode("utf-8","replace")))
