Brocade Network Advisor REST API Guide (Supporting Network Advisor 12.3.0) - Manual (Page 20)

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Logging in
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Logging in
To log in to Network Advisor, complete the following steps.
1. Enter the following URI in the URL field of your REST client tool.
http:///rest/login
2. Define the following HTTP request headers.
3. Set the HTTP request method to POST.
4. Send the request.
The following is an example of login request headers sent to Network Advisor:
Request headers
Accept: application/vnd.brocade.networkadvisor+json;version=v1
WSUsername: Administrator
Origin: chrome-extension://hgmloofddffdnphfgcellkdfbfbjeloo
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML,
like Gecko) Chrome/32.0.1700.102 Safari/537.36
WSPassword: password
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8
If the request is successful, Network Advisor creates a new client session and returns, in the
response headers, the token
WStoken
, which identifies the session.
The following is an example of the output of a successful request:
Status
200 OK Show explanation Loading time: 5592
Response headers
Via: 1.1 Secure Proxy
Connection: Keep-Alive
Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 06:01:39 GMT
Content-Type: application/vnd.brocade.networkadvisor+json;version="v1"
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
WStoken: ghe/4Q//I0EJcxD6UPdO9/fvI94=
Raw
JSON
TABLE 1 Request headers
Header name Value
WSUsername
The user name supplied by your Network Advisor administrator.
WSPassword
The password supplied by your Network Advisor administrator.
Accept The content type of the returned data.
Specify the following content type to receive the response data in the JSON format:
application/vnd.brocade.networkadvisor+json;version=v1
If you prefer the XML format, enter the following value:
application/vnd.brocade.networkadvisor+xml;version=v1