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Version: 3.8.x.x LTS

Authentication

To use the nevisAdmin REST API you have to authenticate first. The type of authentication depends on how nevisAdmin has been configured.

There are two options:

  • Form-based login (default):

    POST to /nevisadmin/rest/j_security_check
    j_username=<your nevisAdmin user>
    j_password=<your password>

  • Certificate-based login:

    Use a client certificate which is trusted by nevisAdmin

In both cases nevisAdmin will return a JSESSIONID cookie. You have to send this JSESSIONID cookie in all subsequent requests. For example, when using curl:

Providing a session ID using curl
   curl -v -x "" -k --cookie-jar nevisadm.txt --
data 'j_username=admin&j_password=admin' https://<hostname>:8037/nevisadmin/j_security_check

   curl -v -x "" -k --cookie-jar nevisadm.txt --cookie nevisadm.txt --header "Accept:
application/json" https://<hostname>:8037/nevisadmin/rest/configuration/environment