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post

/rest/{versionId}/admin/login

Use this (POST) method to authenticate and establish as user session on the SDM server. A user must establish a valid authenticated session before other method calls can be used. The response to a successful authentication returns a valid time-limited session cookie that needs to be returned with all subsequent REST requests to establish the user has an authenticated session in progress.

Request

Supported Media Types

• application/xml
• application/json

Path Parameters

• versionId: string

Header Parameters

• X-OCSDM-DEVICE-ID(optional): string
• X-OCSDM-NF-ID(optional): string
• X-OCSDM-OBJECT-TYPE(optional): string

Body ()

Root Schema : Session

Type: object

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• idleTimeout(optional): integer(int64)
• password(optional): string
• serverInfo(optional): string
• sessionId(optional): string
• userGroup(optional): string
• userName(optional): string
• validUntil(optional): string

{
    "type":"object",
    "properties":{
        "userName":{
            "type":"string"
        },
        "password":{
            "type":"string"
        },
        "userGroup":{
            "type":"string"
        },
        "sessionId":{
            "type":"string"
        },
        "idleTimeout":{
            "type":"integer",
            "format":"int64"
        },
        "serverInfo":{
            "type":"string"
        },
        "validUntil":{
            "type":"string"
        }
    }
}

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Response

Supported Media Types

• application/xml
• application/json

200 Response

successful operation

Body ()

Root Schema : Session

Type: object

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• idleTimeout(optional): integer(int64)
• password(optional): string
• serverInfo(optional): string
• sessionId(optional): string
• userGroup(optional): string
• userName(optional): string
• validUntil(optional): string

{
    "type":"object",
    "properties":{
        "userName":{
            "type":"string"
        },
        "password":{
            "type":"string"
        },
        "userGroup":{
            "type":"string"
        },
        "sessionId":{
            "type":"string"
        },
        "idleTimeout":{
            "type":"integer",
            "format":"int64"
        },
        "serverInfo":{
            "type":"string"
        },
        "validUntil":{
            "type":"string"
        }
    }
}

400 Response

The user input is invalid.

401 Response

The user ID or password is invalid.

404 Response

The REST API version of your input request cannot be found.

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Examples

The following example shows how to login to the server by submitting a POST request on the REST resource using cURL. For more information about cURL, see Use cURL

Example of cURL Data

The following shows an example of cURL data sent with the request.

curl -v -s -c sessionid.txt -X POST [e-mail] -H"Content-Type: application/xml" -H"Accept: application/xml" http://example.com:8080/rest/v1.1/admin/login

Example of Request Body

The following shows an example of the user request body input in XML format.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<session>
  <userName>admin</userName>
  <password>password</password>
</session>

Example of Response Header

The following shows an example of the response header.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 19:39:16 GMT
Server: Apache
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=C1B538D484F77F3EEB25ECD0A3148448.tomcat1; Path=/rest; HttpOnly
Content-Length: 304
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Type: application/xml

Example of Response Body

The following example shows the contents of the response body in XML format.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<session>
  <idleTimeout>0</idleTimeout>
  <serverInfo>NNC76B40</serverInfo>
  <sessionId>C1B538D484F77F3EEB25ECD0A3148448.tomcat1</sessionId>
  <userGroup>administrators</userGroup>
  <userName>admin</userName>
  <validUntil>valid until logout</validUntil>
</session>

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