Use the API Browser

1. Launch the web interface.
   1. Use a web browser to navigate to the actual FQDN or IP address of your firewall:
      https://<firewall>/
   2. Log in with your administrator credentials when prompted to log in to the web interface.
2. Launch the API Browser.
   Go to the API browser URL on your firewall:

   https://<firewall>/api
3. Drill-down to a request.
   When you first open the API browser, the available Request Types display.
   1. Select one of the request types to drill down to the next level of the XPath. Let’s start with Configuration Commands, which equates to type=report:

   2. Drill down further until you select a request that you want to test.
4. Test a request.
   1. Select the URL to then test that request in the browser.

      The browser shows the resulting XML response in the browser:

      Along with the URL, the API browser also provides the XPath as necessary, as shown here for a description of a predefined application: