Retrieve a SAML
Token
The vCenter Single
Sign-On service provides authentication mechanisms for securing the operations
that your client application performs in the virtual environment. Client
applications use SAML security tokens for authentication.
Verify that you have the
vCenter Single Sign-On URL. You can use the Lookup Service on the
to obtain the endpoint URL. For information about
retrieving service endpoints, see
Retrieving Service Endpoints.
Client applications use the
vCenter Single Sign-On service to retrieve SAML tokens. For more information
about how to acquire a SAML security token, see the
vCenter Single Sign-On
Programming Guide
documentation.
- Create a connection object to communicate with the vCenter Single Sign-On service.Pass the vCenter Single Sign-On endpoint URL, which you can get from the Lookup Service.
- Issue a security token request by sending valid user credentials to the vCenter Single Sign-On service on the .
The vCenter Single Sign-On
service returns a SAML token.
You can present the SAML token
to the
vSphere
Automation
API Endpoint or other endpoints, such as the vSphere
Web Services Endpoint. The endpoint returns a session ID and establishes a
persistent session with that endpoint. Each endpoint that you connect to uses
your SAML token to create its own session.