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
vCenter Server
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 thevCenter Single Sign-Onservice.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 thevCenter Single Sign-Onservice onvCenter Server.
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.