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Invoke-WebRequest : Unauthorized

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I am trying to connect to historic data via this URL, which contains my custom date range (last 30 days) and creds.

 $prtgurl = "$PRTGHost/api/historicdata.csv?id=$SensorID&avg=3600&sdate=$StartDate2&edate=$EndDate2&$cred"
 $request = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $prtgurl -MaximumRedirection 0 -ErrorAction Ignore

I always get this error, which I cant get past. Any suggestions would be great.

Invoke-WebRequest : Unauthorized
+ ...  $request = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $prtgurl -MaximumRedirection 0 -Er ...
+                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (System.Net.HttpWebRequest:HttpWebRequest) [Invoke-WebRequest], WebException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : WebCmdletWebResponseException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.InvokeWebRequestCommand

invoke-webrequest prtg-network-monitor-8-x unauthorized

Created on Jun 12, 2019 3:12:20 AM

Last change on Jun 12, 2019 4:28:52 AM by Sven Roggenhofer [Paessler Technical Support]



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Hi there,

According to the error message "Unauthorized", the credentials are not correct. What does the "$cred"-variable look like?

Best regards.

Created on Jun 12, 2019 5:34:02 AM by Dariusz Gorka [Paessler Support]



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like this $cred = New-Credential -UserName xxxx -Password xxxxxx

Created on Jun 13, 2019 2:07:56 AM



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Hi there,

I am afraid that this won't work. Changing the "$prtgurl"-variable this way should work:

"$PRTGHost/api/historicdata.csv?id=$SensorID&avg=3600&sdate=$StartDate2&edate=$EndDate2&username=XXXXXXX&password=XXXXXX"

Best regards.

Created on Jun 13, 2019 8:24:14 AM by Dariusz Gorka [Paessler Support]




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