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Palo Alto Networks Directory Sync Service API

The Directory Sync Service API from Palo Alto Networks — 4 operation(s) for directory sync service.

Documentation Provider Profile APIs.io OpenAPI GitHub

Palo Alto Networks Directory Sync Service API is one of 741 APIs that Palo Alto Networks publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Directory Sync Service. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification.

This API exposes 4 operations across 4 paths, and defines 13 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 1.0.1.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://api.sase.paloaltonetworks.com.

4 operations 4 paths 13 schemas 1 GET3 POST

Metadata

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Specification
OpenAPI 3.2.0
API Version
1.0.1
Base URL
https://{firewall}/api/
Resource Areas
1

Paths & Operations 4

Across 4 paths, the API surfaces 4 operations — 1 GET, 3 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Directory Sync Service 4
GET
/cie/directory-sync/v1/domains
Fetch domains from the CIE Directory Sync Service
→ 200500
POST
/cie/directory-sync/v1/cache-users
Fetch user information from the CIE Directory Sync Service across multiple scenarios.
body → 200400500
POST
/cie/directory-sync/v1/cache-groups
Fetch group information from the CIE Directory Sync Service across multiple scenarios.
body → 200400500
POST
/cie/directory-sync/v1/connection/update-secret
Update directory connection client secret
body → 200400404421500

Schemas 13

The contract defines 13 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are group_filter (3 properties), attr_based_filter (3 properties), list_all_groups_in_domain (2 properties), fetch_all_users_attrs (2 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

list_all_groups_in_domain
object
Retrieve all groups in a particular domain.
2 properties 1 required
attr_based_filter
object
Attribute-based filter.
3 properties 3 required
group_filter
object
Group-based filter.
3 properties 3 required
list_users_in_particular_group
object
Retrieve specific attributes for users belonging to a particular group, filtered using the group-based filter.
2 properties 1 required
list_all_users_in_domain
object
Retrieve all users in a domain.
2 properties
fetch_all_users_attrs
object
Retrieve all attributes for a specific user.
2 properties
check_group_membership
object
Check if a specific user belongs to a particular group, filtered using attribute-based filter (to filter the user) and group-based filter (to filter the group)
1 property 1 required
domain_param
object
Domain name for a specific directory.
1 property 1 required
list_specific_groups
object
Retrieve specific groups matching a name-based filter. Supports filtering of groups based on specific attributes and values (similar to the WHERE clause in SQL…
2 properties 1 required
pagination_params
object
Optional pagination parameters.
2 properties
list_specific_users
object
Retrieve specific users matching a name-based filter in a domain. Supports filtering of users based on specific attributes and values (similar to the WHERE cla…
1 property 1 required
list_groups_user_belongs_to
object
Retrieve all groups containing specific users based on user-filter.
1 property 1 required
check_user_in_particular_group
object
Check if a specific group has a particular user in it, filtered using attribute-based filter (to filter the group) and group-based filter (to filter the user)
2 properties 2 required

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

palo-alto-networks-directory-sync-service-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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Base URL
https://{firewall}/api/
Docs
https://pan.dev/panos/docs/xmlapi/
Provider
Palo Alto Networks
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