vManager vAPI authentication

Hi Baudilio.

It's telling you that you need to provide your credentials (username and password). What method are you using to make the request (e.g. are you using the Python "requests" module?).
What happens if you try with "curl" at the Linux prompt, for example:

Listing all session owners:

curl -X POST "https://yourserver:8080/vmgr/vapi/rest/sessions/list" -H "accept: application/json" -H "content-type: application/json" -d '{ "filter": { "condition": "AND", "@c": ".ChainedFilter", "chain": [] }, "grouping": [ "owner" ], "pageOffset": 0, "pageLength": 50, "settings": {"write-hidden": true, "stream-mode": false }, "projection": { "type": "SELECTION_ONLY", "selection": ["owner" ] }}' -k -user ${USER}:yourpassword -v

(replace <yourserver> and <yourpassword> of course). If you don't want to specify the password, omit the -u option and curl should prompt for your password interactively.

Hi Stephen,

I was just using Postman for it, which uses curl. Once providing the data for basic authentication it worked! Thanks for your help!

Do you happen to have a call to list all sessions that are older than a specific date? I am trying to follow the examples in vmgr/vapi/examples/index.html?op=/sessions/list/POST but having some issues.

Best Regards,

Baudilio Garcia

Cool.

Here's a JSON for /sessions/list that works for me:

{
"filter": {
"attName": "start_time",
"operand": "LESS_THAN",
"@c": ".AttValueFilter",
"attValue": "1605106174000"
},
"projection": {
"type": "SELECTION_ONLY",
"selection": [
"owner", "name", "start_time"
]
}
}

note the attValue field is the "date" expressed as milliseconds since the Unix Epoch. I tend to do all my scripting in Python and use the "time" module to make conversions easy, but you can achieve the same things with the Unix "date" command and a format string, for example:

% date -d '2 weeks ago' '+%s000'
1605693511000

Works flawlessly. Amazing support as always, Stephen!

Works flawlessly. Amazing support as always, Stephen!