User Name and Password Authentication

To authenticate with user name and password, send the HTTP POST request to the /authentication/usernamepassword path.

A successfully completed operation returns the 200 OK response code and an access token in the response body. Inserts the access token in headers of further requests to the Veeam Service Provider Console REST API.

Username and Password Authentication Tip:

To learn how to authorize your access using an application, you can review the Example Requests and Responses section. Alternatively, you can use Swagger UI.

Updating Access Token

To obtain a new access token in case the current one expires or becomes invalid, send the HTTP POST request to the /authentication/refresh path. A successfully completed operation returns the 200 OK response code and a new access token in the response body.

Token Invalidation

An access token expires in 1 hour which means that the access to resources is disabled automatically. If an access token must be revoked immediately, send the HTTP DELETE request to the /users/{userId}/tokens path where {userId} is a UID assigned to a user.

To revoke a token of a specific user identity, specify ID assigned to this user identity in the userLoginID query parameter.

A successfully completed operation returns the 200 OK response code and the true value in the response body.

Username and Password Authentication Note:

Token invalidation consumes a significant amount of server resources. We recommend to use it only in case of emergency, for example, if a token is stolen.

Example Requests and Responses

The following example illustrates how you communicate with the server using requests and responses.

  1. To obtain an access and a refresh token, the client sends the POST request in the multipart/form-data format to the /authentication/usernamepassword path.

In the body of the request, the client specifies username and password — credentials used to access the server; in this example, vspc\administrator and Password1 are used.

Request:

POST https://vspc:1280/api/v3/authentication/usernamepassword

 

Request Header:

Content-Type: multipart/form-data

Authorization: Bearer

 

Request Body:

username : vspc\administrator

password : Password1

The server sends a response in the following format.

Response Code:

200 OK

Response Body:

{

 "data": [

   {

     "accessToken": "eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiJ9.eyJpYXQiOiIxNTgzMDAxMDU4IiwiZXhwIjoiMTU4MzAwNDY1OCIsInN1YiI6IjEzYTUyNjUyLTY5YmEtNDI4My04OGQwLTdiZGI1MDgzY2ZhNiIsImp0aSI6Ijg1MzA4YjAzLWMzOGMtNDMwYi05MGY1LTY3MWY2YzJlOWIwNiIsIm5hbWUiOiJYQUc0M1xcQWRtaW5pc3RyYTFvciIsImxpZCI6IjgiLCJ1aWQiOiI3IiwidHMiOiI1YTMzNjZmMC01N5MxLTRjZTQtYWY5My0xZTExN2IyZDkzNTQiLCJzY29wZSI6IjIiLCJraW5kIjoiMyJ9.fkiV37L-Cpg9hTWigvz4KwxqnxIGRs58tre42OZeVvALMy-3A2xU_xfNwt489__f0adCoq5IIG28RKlGOU_aySHtvb1fM1-Xq45jni23xrZvPHK_qC0v_nq-q6Xqi0z_wBkmi8E63G7_BquzCnKlsWVjJol0miYlu9xxHsDagFjgVFLgd6k7iQHP4kbew-v5BGg2DjEpfn1WnNaWF5sCHoHHtIYLPHm0IBh1KQtgMVL1k_C33L33DBMVFyyYHu-_cGwgaOUnefj2BFu0ci8dxhjU81vfcDqraMZ61gh5QH9Xd8DrYmf2Yh0u4XhDn3zDSo7CjR4vgUiS984aP6S-Rw",

     "refreshToken": "eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiJ9.eyJpYXQiOiIxNTgzMDAxMDU4IiwiZXhwIjoiMTU4MzE3Mzg1OCIsInN1YiI6IjEzYTUyNjUyLTY5YmEtNDI4My04OGQwLTdiZGI1MDgzY2ZhNiIsImp0aSI6IjdjMGQ3ZWY0LWRiYWUtNDYzMS04NmJlLTc5MjEwNDgyNTZiOSIsIm5hbWUiOiJYQUc0M1xcQWRtaW5pc3RyYXRvciIsImxpZCI6IjgiLCJ1aWQiOiI3IiwidHMi90I1YTMzNjZmMC01N2MxLTRjZTQtYWY5My0xZTExN2IyZDkzNTQiLCJzY29wZSI6IjIiLCJraW5kIjoiMiJ9.oYWUl0aLhV5gR7HypeI8-DSh3PkT_z3m937S-_fssuHKoEaq7m7h9K0M41eBe6soqz1sp5qvafvEVWKwzZuPSrHajCe8juxizaLFGK0qrh75vrpaLyERzBWRvnbaVlEKiuN_jOIgrxbz3aPHao3Ua6HsnPWjh1VxWwv7wY1NfNE_IuJ2yz1hFyiC08IMMjUBOzcoVo6vj9zzwQGWdwetLguyhWcGrnMScsR0jfKGxvDY3SLL5Z0WPY5YbWiV1z6BcAGUbyqsK9xdNCoDMej1W5ugA5-xBKbMeh_SLcY2jMnvLTsTWyyj6jkDqOTUA15MJUWAxApAc35I4T2_ZufSCQ",

     "username": "vspc\\Administrator",

     "origin": "Localhost",

     "expirationTime": "2020-03-10T22:30:57.7329569+03:00"

   }

 ]

}

  1. To refresh a pair of tokens, the client sends the HTTP POST request to the authentication/refresh path in the multipart/form-data format.

In the request body, the client specifies the refresh token.

Request:

POST https://vspc:1280/api/v3/authentication/refresh

 

Request Header:

Content-Type: multipart/form-data

 

Request Body:

refreshToken : eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiJ9.eyJpYXQiOiIxNTgzMDAxMDU4IiwiZXhwIjoiMTU4MzE3Mzg1OCIsInN1YiI6IjEzYTUyNjUyLTY5YmEtNDI4My04OGQwLTdiZGI1MDgzY2ZhNiIsImp0aSI6IjdjMGQ3ZWY0LWRiYWUtNDYzMS04NmJlLTc5MjEwNDgyNTZiOSIsIm5hbWUiOiJYQUc0M1xcQWRtaW5pc3RyYXRvciIsImxpZCI6IjgiLCJ1aWQiOiI3IiwidHMi90I1YTMzNjZmMC01N2MxLTRjZTQtYWY5My0xZTExN2IyZDkzNTQiLCJzY29wZSI6IjIiLCJraW5kIjoiMiJ9.oYWUl0aLhV5gR7HypeI8-DSh3PkT_z3m937S-_fssuHKoEaq7m7h9K0M41eBe6soqz1sp5qvafvEVWKwzZuPSrHajCe8juxizaLFGK0qrh75vrpaLyERzBWRvnbaVlEKiuN_jOIgrxbz3aPHao3Ua6HsnPWjh1VxWwv7wY1NfNE_IuJ2yz1hFyiC08IMMjUBOzcoVo6vj9zzwQGWdwetLguyhWcGrnMScsR0jfKGxvDY3SLL5Z0WPY5YbWiV1z6BcAGUbyqsK9xdNCoDMej1W5ugA5-xBKbMeh_SLcY2jMnvLTsTWyyj6jkDqOTUA15MJUWAxApAc35I4T2_ZufSCQ