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Introduction

The /v2/session resource provides a list of valid vCenter sessions of the user making the request.

ResourceURIDescriptionGETPOSTPUTDELETE
Session/sessionCurrent user vCenter active sessions(tick)
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TK stores the Cloud API Token generated as a result of the following POST request to the /auth/request-token resource:

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titleOPTIONS HTTP method

Remember, you can also show what methods are allowed and method description, parameters, etc. by making a GET HTTP request to /v2/session.

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curl -X POST https://vss-api.eis.utoronto.ca:8001/v2/session"
auth/request-token -u <username>

For example, extracting the token with the jq command:

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TK=$(curl -X OPTIONSPOST "https://vss-api.eis.utoronto.ca:8001/v2/session"auth/request-token -u <username> | jq -r '.token')


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Enumerating current user valid vCenter sessions can be done by making a GET request to /v2/session resource, which in case the user actually has at least one valid session, a list of JSON objects with the following attributes will be the result:

AttributeTypeDescription
keystringvCenter session key
usernamestringFull username including domain associated with session
_linksobjectContains reference to current session to display further information

The following examples implements HTTPie and CURL to list valid vCenter sessions:

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http -a $TK GET "https://vss-api.eis.utoronto.ca:8001/v2/session" "Authorization: Bearer $TK"
curl -uH "Authorization: Bearer $TK" -X GET "https://vss-api.eis.utoronto.ca:8001/v2/session"


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{
    "_links": {
        "api": "https://vss-api.eis.utoronto.ca:8001/v2/",
        "self": "https://vss-api.eis.utoronto.ca:8001/v2/session"
    },
    "data": [
        {
            "_links": {
                "self": "https://vss-api.eis.utoronto.ca:8001/v2/session/521615fc-1b09-bee9-0350-2a79568f4ad0"
            },
            "key": "521615fc-1b09-bee9-0350-2a79568f4ad0",
            "username": "VSKEY5\\josem"
        }
    ],
    "meta": {
        "count": 1,
        "time": "0.00801s",
        "user": "josem"
    }
}

Getting additional information about specific session can be done appending the session key to the /v2/session URI as follows:

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http -a $TK GET "https://vss-api.eis.utoronto.ca:8001/v2/session/521615fc-1b09-bee9-0350-2a79568f4ad0" "Authorization: Bearer $TK"
curl -uH "Authorization: Bearer $TK" -X GET "https://vss-api.eis.utoronto.ca:8001/v2/session/521615fc-1b09-bee9-0350-2a79568f4ad0"

Additional attributes will be shown as a result and are described in the following table:

AttributeTypeDescription
domainstringAuthentication domain (usually VSKEY).
ipstringIP address of remote client.
lastActiveTimestringTimestamp of last active time
lastActiveTimeDeltastringTime delta of last active time to now.
loginTimestringTimestamp when login.
loginTimeDeltastringTime delta of login time to now.
userAgentstring

What application is connected to vCenter.

  • VMware VI Client - vSphere Windows Client


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{
    "_links": {
        "self": "https://vss-api.eis.utoronto.ca:8001/v2/session/521615fc-1b09-bee9-0350-2a79568f4ad0",
        "session": "https://vss-api.eis.utoronto.ca:8001/v2/session"
    },
    "data": [
        {
            "domain": "VSKEY5",
            "ip": "12810.1000.1020.2221",
            "lastActiveTime": "2016-05-09 10:58:21",
            "lastActiveTimeDelta": "0:13:59.079416",
            "loginTime": "2016-04-15 11:11:28",
            "loginTimeDelta": "24 days, 0:00:51.439527",
            "userAgent": "VMware VI Client/4.0",
            "username": "VSKEY5\\josem"
        }
    ],
    "meta": {
        "count": 1,
        "time": "0.03858s",
        "user": "josem"
    }
}