A simple script to open up the Gaia web API

open-web-api.sh

#!/bin/bash

# open-web-api.sh

LOG_FILE=/var/log/open-web-api.log

start_time=$(date)

echo "$start_time" > $LOG_FILE

while true; do
  api_status=$(api status |grep "Overall API Status" |awk -F ": " '{ print $2 }')
  if [ "$api_status" == "Started" ]; then
    echo "API has been started" >> $LOG_FILE
    api_access=$(api status |grep "Access" |awk -F "ip " '{ print $2 }' |tr -d '[:space:]')
    if [ "$api_access" == "127.0.0.1" ]; then
      echo "API access set to localhost only" >> $LOG_FILE
      mgmt_cli -r true set api-settings accepted-api-calls-from "All IP addresses" --domain 'System Data' --format json >> $LOG_FILE 2>&1
      api restart >> $LOG_FILE 2>&1
    else
      api_access=$(api status |grep "Access")
      echo "$api_access" >> $LOG_FILE
    fi
    break
  else
    echo "API not started" >> $LOG_FILE
    sleep 5
  fi
done

exit 0

You can have this script run on startup by adding the following lines at the end of /etc/rc.local

# Allow incoming web API calls
/home/admin/bin/open-web-api.sh &