Networker Rest API to give user permissions

Hi @crazyrov . Will you be able to comment on this

did you check the online rest api resources as nowadays it is no longer mentioned in any pdf docs but rather online on https://api-marketplace.dell.com.

for NW specifically:
https://api-marketplace.dell.com/#/overview-doc/2378/5968/docs/GettingStarted.md

I can't recall that NW NMC user management is part of it (yet, even if at all?) as the NW NMC users are nowadays regarded as being external to the NW server, even when the NMC actually runs on the NW server itself.

For creating NW NMC users I use the rather options of the authc_mgmt command. However when doing so at the time, it was somewhat peculiar as it appeared that some settings to be set did not work in one initial commadn and required to be set after the user account is created (like user-options-password-must-change and user-options-password-never-expires) by looping through a created user and then setting those.

However have not found an option (yet?) to assign newly created users to actually be either user/admin/security admin. Those check boxes I still have to manually check once the users are created by script...

I'm curious if others might still have found ways to do this all via commandline or even rest-api?

Only would have to set the password for the user being used to perform the command and also set the password that you want to be set for the new user. It uses an input file with the pipe (|) as field separator for users information:

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# script to add users via CLI to NMC
# input file nmc_users.txt uses pipe (|) as field separator
#
# user options have to be set after creating the user, using the user-options-user-id
# of the new user

#set -x

PASSWORD=''
NMCUSER=Administrator
cat nmc_users.txt|grep -v "^#"| while read USERS

do
USERNAME=`echo $USERS | awk --field-separator "|" '{print $1}'`
USERFIRSTNAME=`echo $USERS | awk --field-separator "|" '{print $2}'`
USERLASTNAME=`echo $USERS | awk --field-separator "|" '{print $3}'`
USERDETAILS=`echo $USERS | awk --field-separator "|" '{print $4}'`

echo creating NMC user $USERNAME for user $USERFIRSTNAME $USERLASTNAME \($USERDETAILS\)

authc_mgmt -u $NMCUSER -p $PASSWORD -e add-user -D "user-name=$USERNAME" -D "user-password=" -D "user-first-name=$USERFIRSTNAME" -D "user-last-name=$USERLASTNAME" -D "user-details=$USERDETAILS" -D "user-groups=100,101" -D "user-options-password-must-change=true" -D "user-options-password-never-expires=true" -D "user-enabled=yes"

echo querying for user $USERNAME what the user-options-user-id is
USEROPTIONSUSERID=`authc_mgmt -u $NMCUSER -p $PASSWORD -e find-user -D "user-name=$USERNAME"|grep "User Id"|awk '{print $4}'`
echo user-options-user-id from user $USERNAME is $USEROPTIONSUSERID

echo setting user-options-password-must-change and user-options-password-never-expires to TRUE for user $USERNAME with user-options-user-id $USEROPTIONSUSERID

authc_mgmt -u $NMCUSER -p $PASSWORD -e update-user-options -D "user-options-user-id=$USEROPTIONSUSERID" -D "user-options-password-must-change=true" -D "user-options-password-never-expires=true"

done

Hi @barry_beckers 

I was simply trying to add users in the Networker as this task is a part of User Management in my opinion. I conclude that there is a way in which we can successfully add users into the Networker Management Console by using the Rest API of Networker.

I am willing to paste a screenshot of the work but is there any way I can delete it later?

Hi @piyush_automation , unfortunately there is no endpoint defined for creating a user. This might mostly because the user is created in the authc database and the API is used to get/put information from the resource database or media database.
The mostly easiest way to figure out is to use the Web ui, see if such a option exists there (Sorry I don't have a web UI handy to check this) and probably follow the RPC call to the endpoint using tools like chrome developer tools.