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ECS 3.6.2 Data Access Guide

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Working with self-service keys

Examples provided here help you use the ECS Management REST API to create, read, and manage secret keys.

To perform operations with secret keys you must first authenticate with the Management API. The examples provided use the curl tool.

Log in as a domain user

You can log in as a domain user and obtain an authentication token that can be used to authenticate subsequent requests.

curl -ik -u user@mydomain.com:<Password> https://10.241.48.31:4443/login
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2018 17:29:38 GMT
Content-Type: application/xml
Content-Length: 107
Connection: keep-alive
X-SDS-AUTH-TOKEN: BAAcaVAzNU16eVcwM09rOWd2Y1ZoUFZ4QmRTK2JVPQMAQQIADTE0MzAwNzQ4ODA1NTQDAC
51cm46VG9rZW46YWJmODA1NTEtYmFkNC00ZDA2LWFmMmMtMTQ1YzRjOTdlNGQ0AgAC0A8=

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<loggedIn>
<user>tcas@corp.sean.com</user>
</loggedIn>

Generate first key

You can generate a secret key.

curl -ks -H "X-SDS-AUTH-TOKEN: BAAcaVAzNU16eVcwM09rOWd2Y1ZoUFZ4QmRTK2JVPQMAQQIADTE0MzAw
NzQ4ODA1NTQDAC51cm46VG9rZW46YWJmODA1NTEtYmFkNC00ZDA2LWFmMmMtMTQ1YzRjOTdlNGQ0AgAC0A8=" 
-H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d "{}" 
https://10.241.48.31:4443/object/secret-keys | xmllint --format -

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<user_secret_key>
  <link rel="self" href="/object/user-secret-keys/tcas@corp.sean.com"/>
  <secret_key>7hXZ9/EHTVvmFuYly/z3gHpihXtEUX/VZxdxDDBd</secret_key>
  <key_expiry_timestamp/>
  <key_timestamp>2018-03-05 17:39:13.813</key_timestamp>
</user_secret_key>

Generate second key

You can generate a second secret key and set the expiration for the first key.

curl -ks -H "X-SDS-AUTH-TOKEN: BAAcaVAzNU16eVcwM09rOWd2Y1ZoUFZ4QmRTK2JVPQMAQQIADTE0MzAwN
zQ4ODA1NTQDAC51cm46VG9rZW46YWJmODA1NTEtYmFkNC00ZDA2LWFmMmMtMTQ1YzRjOTdlNGQ0AgAC0A8=" 
-H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d "{\"existing_key_expiry_time_mins\": \"10\"}" 
https://10.241.48.31:4443/object/secret-keys | xmllint --format -

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<user_secret_key>
  <link rel="self" href="/object/user-secret-keys/tcas@corp.sean.com"/>
  <secret_key>l3fPCuFCG/bxoOXCPZoYuPwhXrSTwU0f1kFDaRUr</secret_key>
  <key_expiry_timestamp/>
  <key_timestamp>2018-03-05 17:40:12.506</key_timestamp>
</user_secret_key>

Check keys

You can check the keys that you have been assigned. In this case, there are two keys with the first having an expiration date/time.

curl -ks -H "X-SDS-AUTH-TOKEN: BAAcaVAzNU16eVcwM09rOWd2Y1ZoUFZ4QmRTK2JVPQMAQQIADTE0MzAw
NzQ4ODA1NTQDAC51cm46VG9rZW46YWJmODA1NTEtYmFkNC00ZDA2LWFmMmMtMTQ1YzRjOTdlNGQ0AgAC0A8=" 
https://10.241.48.31:4443/object/secret-keys | xmllint --format -
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<user_secret_keys>
  <secret_key_1>7hXZ9/EHTVvmFuYly/z3gHpihXtEUX/VZxdxDDBd</secret_key_1>
  <secret_key_2>l3fPCuFCG/bxoOXCPZoYuPwhXrSTwU0f1kFDaRUr</secret_key_2>
  <key_expiry_timestamp_1>2018-03-05 17:50:12.369</key_expiry_timestamp_1>
  <key_expiry_timestamp_2/>
  <key_timestamp_1>2018-03-05 17:39:13.813</key_timestamp_1>
  <key_timestamp_2>2018-03-05 17:40:12.506</key_timestamp_2>
  <link rel="self" href="/object/secret-keys"/>
</user_secret_keys>

Delete all secret keys

If you need to delete your secret keys before regenerating them. You can use the following.

curl -ks -H "X-SDS-AUTH-TOKEN: BAAcaVAzNU16eVcwM09rOWd2Y1ZoUFZ4QmRTK2JVPQMAQQIADTE0MzAw
NzQ4ODA1NTQDAC51cm46VG9rZW46YWJmODA1NTEtYmFkNC00ZDA2LWFmMmMtMTQ1YzRjOTdlNGQ0AgAC0A8=" 
-H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d "{}" https://10.241.48.31:4443/object/secret-keys/deactivate

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