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Common API

Routine administrative actions across Sophos Central alerts, users and user groups.

Base URL

https://api-{dataRegion}.central.sophos.com/common/v1 — Regional service in the production environment.

Variable Description Default Allowed values
dataRegion Data region where tenant data is stored. eu01 eu01, eu02, us01, us03, ca01, au01, jp01, in01, br01, ae01

Authentication

Every request carries an Authorization: Bearer header with an access token obtained through the client-credentials flow — see Get started.

Required permissions

This API's operations require one or more of the following, depending on the operation — see each operation's own page for the exact requirement:

  • alerts:action
  • alerts:read
  • assignment:create
  • assignment:delete
  • assignment:read
  • permission-set:list
  • role:read
  • role:update
  • role:write
  • tenant-admin:create
  • tenant-admin:delete
  • tenant-admin:list AND assignment:read
  • tenant-admin:read AND assignment:read
  • tenant-directory.membership:add
  • tenant-directory.membership:remove
  • tenant-directory.user-group:create AND tenant-directory.membership:add
  • tenant-directory.user-group:delete
  • tenant-directory.user-group:read
  • tenant-directory.user-group:update
  • tenant-directory.user:create AND tenant-directory.membership:add
  • tenant-directory.user:delete AND tenant-directory.membership:remove
  • tenant-directory.user:read
  • tenant-directory.user:update

Operations

Alerts

Directory Management

tenant-access

See Guide for more on tenant-access.

Tenant role management

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