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Aruba Central Next Gen

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Actions408

Roles & Policy → Get Role

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Overview

This node operation retrieves detailed information about a specific role within the Aruba Central Next Gen platform under the 'Roles & Policy' resource. It is useful for administrators who need to fetch role configurations, permissions, and related metadata for management or auditing purposes. For example, an admin can use this node to get the details of a role named 'my-role' to verify its permissions or to use the role data in further automation workflows.

Use Case Examples

  1. Retrieve the configuration details of a role named 'my-role' in the 'configuration' domain to audit permissions.
  2. Fetch role details with additional filters like view type, object type, or scope ID to customize the role data retrieval.

Properties

Name Meaning
Debug Mode Whether to enable detailed debug logs for troubleshooting.
Domain API domain to interact with, such as monitoring, configuration, interfaces, routing, network services, security, management, or system.
Name Unique name of the role to retrieve.
Additional Fields Optional additional parameters to refine the role retrieval, including view type, object type, scope ID, persona, detailed flag, and effective flag.

Output

JSON

  • roleDetails - Detailed information about the retrieved role, including its configuration and permissions.

Dependencies

  • Requires an API key credential for Aruba Central Next Gen OAuth2 authentication to access the API.

Troubleshooting

  • Common issues include invalid role name or domain selection, resulting in errors indicating the role could not be found.
  • Errors related to authentication failure due to missing or invalid API credentials.
  • Network or API endpoint issues causing request timeouts or failures.

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