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Since my first post back in 2014, many of the example scripts that I’ve shared integrate with Zerto using their bolt-on REST APIs. After 4 years of stability, in 5.0 U3, Zerto changed the requirements of the authorization header to require the content type in addition to the session token as a “security” feature.
Unfortunately, this means that any Zerto script you have downloaded from my blog, customized, or written, needs to be edited to continue working after the upgrade. Without any modification, your REST API calls to Zerto won’t even give you an error, they will just return null. Pretty annoying huh? I’ll be honest in that I was completely livid when I found out. To me, this looks like a pointless change to fix a problem that didn’t exist while creating a heap more by how it is was implemented and communicated.
On top of this, the Zerto API documentation leaves a lot to be desired as it hasn’t even been updated (as of 06/25/17) to reflect the new requirements! But that’s why I’m here to help. So how do you go about fixing your Zerto scripts?
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