Symantec Connect - ServiceDesk - API

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ServiceDesk Version:	8.5

Authorization

Provides authentication method. The API simply passes through the authentication paradigm from ProcessManager. The API consumer is responsible for managing the provided token and handling authentication failures.

API Description

POST api/authorization/token Attempts to authenticate using the credentials provided and returns a token if successful. The returned token must be provided as the Authentication header for all subsequent requests. If authentication fails a 403 response will be returned.

	API	Description
POST	api/authorization/token	Attempts to authenticate using the credentials provided and returns a token if successful. The returned token must be provided as the Authentication header for all subsequent requests. If authentication fails a 403 response will be returned.

Request

POST api/authorization/token

Request Information

URI Parameters

None

Body Parameters

Name	Description	Type	Additional information
Username		string	None.
Password		string	None.

Request Formats

application/json, text/json

{
  "username": "sample string 1",
  "password": "sample string 2"
}

Response Formats

"00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"