Activate/Deactivate Watchers through Jenikins

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I have a number of watchers configured in Elastic which I would like to activate/deactivate in one go. I'm planning to create a Jenkins job and use the below APIs.

PUT _xpack/watcher/watch/watcherid/_deactivate
PUT _xpack/watcher/watch/watcherid/_activate

However, how do I go about the authentication part? Based on the article here, any token will be valid only for a limited time - https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/security-api-get-token.html

I'm probably missing something here. Could you help please?

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Using the token API you still need your password to generate an initial token. and then refresh that one.

If you do not want to store a password you could use the PKI realm. See https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.4/configuring-pki-realm.html

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Thanks. Are there any examples around of invoking elastic Rest API calls externally (like through Jenkins?)

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Hi @spinscale,
Going through a few posts on the forums, I'm assuming I should be able to provide the username/password as part of the cURL command similar to below. Can you confirm on this please? Last question then, my Jenkins resides on a different server than where the ELK components are hosted. So the localhost & port part is not going to be valid. Should the hostname be the same that I use to view the Kibana dashboard?

curl --user rdeniro:taxidriver -XPUT 'localhost:9200/idx'

Thanks in advance.

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not the kibana dashboard, but the elasticsearch instance.

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