Quick Tip: How to get the NSX-T Manager’s Thumbprint and Node UUID with an API call using Postman

You might need the NSX-T Manager’s Thumbprint and Node UUID when you want an Edge VM to be automatically joined to the management plane, or maybe you need these properties for an automation script. At shuttletitan.com I found an article on how to retrieve this properties through the command-line, another option is to retrieve this through the API using Postman.

One single API call will provide you with all the required information:

https://<nsxt-manager-url>/api/v1/cluster/nodes

The steps are:

1. Enter the API call, the method is GET
2. Select authentication and select Basic Auth
3. Enter username and password of your NSX manager
4. Click Send.

The UUID is the ID behind “external_id”. The thumbprint can be found behind certificate_sha256_thumbprint.

That’s it, happy scripting!