User Name and Password Authentication for the
You can
authenticate with the
by using a user name and password known to the
vCenter Single
Sign-On
Service.
If you prefer to delegate the
process of requesting a SAML token for your API client, you can present your
domain credentials to the
vSphere
Automation
API endpoint and request a session ID. The endpoint
process forwards your credentials to the
vCenter Single
Sign-On
Service and requests a SAML token on your behalf. In this
case, you never deal with the token.