Any individual is able to create a 30 days free trial ManageEngine Endpoint Central account and use the API for testing purposes.
The steps to create the account are pretty straight forward, it's recommended to use your google account to sign up fester, but other than that just follow website instructions.
After setting up the account, you need to download and instal the agent so you have computer data to ingest.
Authentication is a bit more complicated case you need sign in a different provider.
Follow the steps to get required information:
- Login into https://api-console.zoho.com/
- Create a "Self Client" client type
- Inside the "Self Client" application, go to "Client Secret" tab and copy both "Client ID" and "Client Secret" to somewhere. (you can past in you env file already)
- Now yet inside "Self Client", go to "Generate Code" tab, and execute the
following steps:
- Set "Scope" to
DesktopCentralCloud.Common.READ,DesktopCentralCloud.SOM.READ,DesktopCentralCloud.Inventory.READ,DesktopCentralCloud.PatchMgmt.READ - Set "Time Duration" to 10 minutes (optional)
- Set "Scope Description" to anything you want (ex.: JupiterOne Integration)
- Click "Create" and a code will be generated
- Set "Scope" to
- Now you need to get the refresh token, for that you need to execute the
following curl command:
curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" -d "code=<code>&client_id=<client_id>&client_secret=<client_secret>&redirect_uri=https://www.zoho.com" https://accounts.zoho.com/oauth/v2/token- Replace
<code>,<client_id>and<client_secret>with the values you got from the previous steps - The response will be a json with the refresh token, now copy the "refresh token", "client id" and "client secret" to the env file and you are good to go