Login

The Login method authenticates and obtains authorization from the DSM manager.

Parameters

xsd:string userName: The name of a valid user account that has permission to authenticate with the DSM manager. If unified login is disabled, this is a mandatory parameter.
xsd:string password: The password that corresponds to the given user name. If unified login is disabled, this is a mandatory parameter.
xsd:string manager (M): The host name of the DSM manager to which the method should attempt to connect.

Return Values

xsd:string LoginReturn: A unique session ID to use as an input parameter for all further calls to the web service.

Remarks

This method obtains a connection to the manager and creates a web service session, returning the session ID for further web service calls.

TWindows and Linux credentials:

Windows Domain

url: http://<hostname>/UDSM_R11_WebService/mod_gsoap.dll

user : winnt://<domain name>/<username>

password : <password>

manager :<dsmmanagername>

Linux

url : http://<hostname>/UDSM_R11_WebService

user : unixl://<complete domain name>/<username>

password : <password>

manager :<dsmmanagername>

hostname: Specifies the name of the the computer on which Web Services is installed.
domain name: Specifies the NT domain name (either local machine name or domain name)
Complete domain name: Specifies the fully qualified machine name of the Linux machine

It is recommended that you use SSL to connect to Web Services.

When connecting to Active Directory:

url: http:// <hostname>/UDSM_R11_WebService (on Linux)

url: http://<hostname>/UDSM_R11_WebService/mod_gsoap.dll (on Windows)

user : ldap://<directory name>/<username>

<username> can be of UPN or DN format

In UPN format : <username>: user@directory name

IN DN Format : <username>: cn= user,ou=users,ou=XXXX,dc=YYY dc=com

When connecting to an LDAP enabled directory (not Active Directory):

url: http:// <hostname>/UDSM_R11_WebService (on Linux)

url: http://<hostname>/UDSM_R11_WebService/mod_gsoap.dll (on Windows)

user : ldap://<directory name>/<user dn>

<user dn> is the distinguished name format, for example

cn= user,ou=users,ou= XXXX,dc=YYY dc=com

When connecting to NDS (Windows only):

url: http://<hostname>/UDSM_R11_WebService/mod_gsoap.dll

user: nds://<tree name>/<user dn>

<user dn> is the distinguished name format; for example,

cn=user.ou=XXXX.o=aar