Initiate Session

nitiating a session requires a user name and a password. The configured users are the same as configured for the web application. When you issue the Initiate Session request, a sessionID cookie is returned in the response.

Note

All subsequent API requests must be made with a valid sessionID cookie in the request header.

Authorizations: Administrator, Operator, Observer

Requests

^{POST /api/session

{
"username" : "[user name]",
"password" : "[password]"
}}

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
username	string	Valid user.
password	string	Valid password.

Response

^{{
"response": {
"type": "Session",
"message": "Session successfully started for haiadmin",
"sessionID": "[Session ID]",
"lastLoginDate": 1536777877871,
"numLoginFailures": 0
}
}}