Anaplan API v2.0 - notes from setting it up

Jason_C
Jason_C
in Integrations and extensibility

I have compiled this information as I have been working to connect to Anaplan via its API. I have chosen not to use Hyperconnect or Anaplan Connect. WHY you might ask?

1.) Hyperconnect: Our IT team will not support Hyper connect.

2.) Anaplan Connect: It is limited in scheduling and error outputs, and users have to know scripting to get really additional functionality.

I am not a true developer, but have played in different languages and platforms. Ultimately after many hours of testing I found that the only way to get the required information for the Authentication service is via Java (only language i tried). The requested random string seems to be required in byte format only. I have tried text formatted values at the correct length, but the only success came when the random string was created in a byte format. I have posted my highlevel steps below, and i will also be posting more detailed information as well.

 

High-level steps:

  1. Request a CA certificate be created. Create a P&I ticket and the security team will generate the certificate and copy and paste into our secret server. 
  2. Insert ONLY the public certificate into the Anaplan:
    1. In order to upload the CA public certificate, an administrator, with the hamburg in then upper left hand corner, will select the Administration option and then the sub-level of Security. A screen shot is shown below to demonstrate this.

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    2. The screen shot below is adding the public certificate to the Anaplan site. The public cert may already be in the correct format, which i believe is PEM and Base64 encoded.
      For further information please review Anaplan's site: - https://help.anaplan.com/anapedia/Content/Administration_and_Security/Tenant_Administration/Security/Certificates.htm?_ga=2.135268727.710249128.1552916039-1208465040.1552574943 .
      When the authentication service is being called, the service will check against the public cert.

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  3. Call the Anaplan authentication. This is an API call that returns a Java Web Token (JWT). This is the key that allows for the Anaplan Kingdom to be opened for different actions. NOTE: the JWT is only valid for 30 minutes. 'Refreshing' the JWT still created a new JWT.
    1. Anaplan Authentication API service

    2. You can test the certificate setup in Postman. A sample setup and successful response is shown below. (I will be posting Postman examples in a different post)

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