Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager Web Client
To work with Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager RESTful API, you can use any browser or client application that supports HTTP and HTTPS protocols.
Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager additionally offers its own client, Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager Web Client, that you can use to evaluate and test capabilities of Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager RESTful API. Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager Web Client is a web-based client. It can be accessed via the Internet browser on the machine where Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager is installed by the following URL:
Unlike a web browser that allows you to send only GET HTTP requests, Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager Web Client lets you send all types of HTTP requests by simply following URLs in a resource representation. For your convenience, resource URLs are underlined when you move the cursor over them.
Additionally, you can access the list of current tasks and sessions using links at the top right corner of the window.
Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager RESTful API Client facilitates the client authentication. After you create a new logon session and log on to Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager, it automatically appends the authorization token to all requests to the server.
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When you explore Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager RESTful API through Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager Web Client, to create a new logon session, you do not need to put credentials in the header of the POST HTTP request. After you follow a URL to create a logon session and then submit the request, a login dialog opens in the web browser, and you can enter the user name and password of the account to be used for authentication. |
By default, Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager Web Client sends requests and receives responses in the XML format. To exchange requests in the JSON format, select the JSON format check box at the top of the Web Client window. This document displays request and response examples in the XML format.