Create use delete user session

If not created already, create an instance of Rest or Redfish Object using the RestObject or RedfishObject class respectively. The class constructor takes iLO hostname/ ip address, iLO login username and password as arguments. The class also initializes a login session, gets systems resources and message registries.

Rest Object creation:

REST_OBJ = RestObject(iLO_host, login_account, login_password)

Redfish Object creation:

REDFISH_OBJ = RedfishObject(iLO_host, login_account, login_password)

Example 14: Create and delete a user session

The method ex14_sessions takes an instance of rest object( or redfish object if using Redfish API ) , iLO login user name and iLO login password as arguments.

def ex12_sessions(restobj, login_account, login_password):

Create a new session dictionary with iLO login username and login password.

new_session = {"UserName": login_account, "Password": login_password}

Sent a POST request to the URI '/rest/v1/Sessions' with the created session dictionary as request body to create a session.

response = restobj.rest_post("/rest/v1/Sessions", new_session)
restobj.error_handler(response)

For a successful response status get the session URI, session key from the response header. ILO returns lower case header names though HTTP headers are case insensitive.

if response.status == 201:
    session_uri = response.getheader("location")
    session_uri = urlparse.urlparse(session_uri)
    sys.stdout.write("\tSession " + session_uri.path + " created\n")

    x_auth_token = response.getheader("x-auth-token")
    sys.stdout.write("\tSession key " + x_auth_token + " created\n")

Send DELETE request to the session URI in order to log out of the session and check the response status.

sessresp = restobj.rest_delete(session_uri.path)
restobj.error_handler(sessresp)