Dynatrace Synthetic Monitoring credentials using PAM api

[jordan_rose]

Is there any way for Synthetic Monitoring transactions to call the CA PAM api to get a user account/credentials?

Our security team is pushing for a "check in/check out" process for certain service accounts. If we could call the PAM api to get the account and credentials this would satisfy that need.

[Philipp_Kastner]

Hi @jordan_rose,

are you using browser monitors? If yes, you can use a JavaScript event to execute simple API calls.
Similar to the example shown in the help

Hope this helps,

Philipp

[jordan_rose]

Hi Philipp, thanks for the reply and this is very helpful. Once I retrieve a user name how can I set it to a variable and input that into a form field. I looked through the doc and didn't see this and I haven't had any need to edit the scripts of the recorded click path yet so forgive me if I'm missing it. 

Any help on this much appreciated!

[Philipp_Kastner · Accepted solution]

You have two options.

1. You can store the user name via api.setValue and use it in a subsequent keystroke events via placeholders for example {username}.

2. You set the value of the input directly via JavaScript.

Example

api.startAsyncSyntheticEvent();
fetch('https://randomuser.me/api/').then((resp) => resp.json()).then(function(data) {

    // Option 1 - Store username via api.setValue to use in subsequent events
    api.setValue("username", data.results[0].name.first);

    // Option 2 - Set input value directly via JavaScript
    document.getElementById('username').value = data.results[0].name.first;

    api.finish();
}).catch(function(error) {
    api.fail('Fetch request to randomuser.me failed');
});

Using the placeholder in a subsequent keystroke event

Kind regards,

Philipp

[jordan_rose]

Phillip, this is awesome, Thank you so much for replying with this info. I will do some testing to try to get this working....