REST calls via powershell [solution inside]

[Matthias Schelp]

Hey guys,

as there have been some post on REST calls lately and I also received a powershell newsletter covering that subject. I tried to implement Automic REST calls in powershell. At first I thought it's very easy, but turns out it's a little tricky, cause the powershell command does not support basic authentication out of the box.

So here is a basic example that I'd like to share with you ...

$uri            = "http://<aeserver>:8088/ae/api/v1/<client>/executions/<runid>"
$base64AuthInfo = [Convert]::ToBase64String([Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes(("{0}:{1}" -f "<user>/<department>","<password>")))

irm -uri $uri -Method GET -Headers @{"Authorization"="Basic $base64AuthInfo"}

This should work in powershell 3.0 and above.

Matthias