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Palo Alto Networks Authentication Rules API

Authentication Rules

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Palo Alto Networks Authentication Rules API is one of 599 APIs that Palo Alto Networks publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Authentication Rules. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification.

This API exposes 11 operations across 6 paths, and defines 5 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 2.0.0.

Requests are made against 2 base URLs: https://api.strata.paloaltonetworks.com/config/identity/v1, https://api.sase.paloaltonetworks.com/sse/config/v1.

11 operations 6 paths 5 schemas 2 DELETE3 GET4 POST2 PUT

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.2.0
API Version
2.0.0
Base URL
https://{firewall}/api/
Authentication
OAuth 2.0, HTTP Bearer, HTTP Bearer
Contact
Palo Alto Networks Technical Support
License
MIT
Terms of Service
View terms
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 3

Palo Alto Networks Authentication Rules API declares 3 security schemes for authenticating requests. It supports OAuth 2.0 (scmOAuth) using the clientCredentials flow. It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (JWT) (scmToken). It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (Bearer). By default, every request must be authenticated.

  • scmOAuth — Strata Cloud Manager APIs authenticate client requests using the OAuth 2.0 Client Credentials flow. Please use the clientid, clientsecret values associated wit…
  • scmToken — Strata Cloud Manager APIs authenticate client requests using the OAuth 2.0 Client Credentials flow. Please use the clientid, clientsecret values associated wit…

Paths & Operations 11

Across 6 paths, the API surfaces 11 operations — 2 DELETE, 3 GET, 4 POST, 2 PUT. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Authentication Rules 11

Authentication Rules

GET
/authentication-rules
List authentication rules
ListAuthenticationRules 7 params → 200400401403404default
POST
/authentication-rules
Create an authentication rule
CreateAuthenticationRules 1 param body → 201400401403409default
GET
/authentication-rules/{id}
Get an authentication rule
GetAuthenticationRulesByID 1 param → 200400401403404default
PUT
/authentication-rules/{id}
Update an authentication rule
UpdateAuthenticationRulesByID 1 param body → 200400401403404409default
DELETE
/authentication-rules/{id}
Delete an authentication rule
DeleteAuthenticationRulesByID 1 param → 200400401403404409default
POST
/authentication-rules/{id}:move
Move an authentication rule
MoveAuthenticationRulesByID 1 param body → 201400401403409default
GET
/sse/config/v1/authentication-rules
List all authentication rules
get-sse-config-v1-authentication-rules 5 params → 200400401403404default
POST
/sse/config/v1/authentication-rules
Create an authentication rule
post-sse-config-v1-authentication-rules 2 params body → 200400401403409default
DELETE
/sse/config/v1/authentication-rules/{id}
Delete a authentication rule
delete-sse-config-v1-authentication-rules-id 1 param → 200400401403404409default
PUT
/sse/config/v1/authentication-rules/{id}
Edit a authentication rule
put-sse-config-v1-authentication-rules-id 1 param body → 200400401403404409default
POST
/sse/config/v1/authentication-rules/{id}:move
Move an authentication rule
post-sse-config-v1-authentication-rules-id:move 2 params body → 200400401403409default

Schemas 5

The contract defines 5 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are authentication-rules (22 properties), error_detail_cause_info (4 properties), rule-based-move (3 properties), generic_error (2 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

rule-based-move
object
3 properties 2 required
error_detail_cause_info
object
4 properties
generic_error
object
2 properties
error_detail_cause_infos
array
authentication-rules
object
22 properties 6 required

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

palo-alto-networks-authentication-rules-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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API Details
ID
palo-alto-networks:palo-alto-networks-authentication-rules-api
Base URL
https://{firewall}/api/
Docs
https://pan.dev/panos/docs/xmlapi/
Provider
Palo Alto Networks
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