scripts/Get-AppDAuth.ps1
<# .SYNOPSIS Gets AppD authorization header string required for rest API calls to AppDynamics .DESCRIPTION Gets AppD authorization header string required for rest API calls to AppDynamics. defaults to readonly guest account .EXAMPLE PS C:\> Get-AppDAuth -UserName "someone@customer1" -Password "yourpassword" Returns an base 64bit string representing your authorization to be used in subsequent AppDynamics rest API calls #> function Get-AppDAuth { [CmdletBinding()] param( # Username containing @accountname required for auth -e.g. someone@customer1 [Parameter(Mandatory = $false)] [String] $UserName = 'guest@customer1', # Password required for auth [Parameter(Mandatory = $false)] [String] $Password = 'guest' ) Begin { Write-AppDLog "$($MyInvocation.MyCommand)" } Process { if ($Username -notmatch '.+?@[a-zA-Z0-9]+$') #ends with @someAccountName { $Username += '@customer1' } Write-Output ('Basic ' + [System.Convert]::ToBase64String([System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes($UserName + ":" + $Password ))) } } |