Initiate Session

Initiating 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 } }