Guest Auth Manager Release Credentials In Guest

Guest Auth Manager Release Credentials In Guest

Releases session data and resources associated with a GuestAuthentication object returned by AcquireCredentialsInGuest.

This frees any resources and session data associated with a GuestAuthentication object returned by AcquireCredentialsInGuest. The GuestAuthentication object can no longer be used to authenticate in the guest once released. Currently this operation is only valid for TicketedSessionAuthentication objects.

Request
URI
POST
https://{vcenter-host}/sdk/vim25/{release}/GuestAuthManager/{moId}/ReleaseCredentialsInGuest
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Path Parameters
string
moId
Required

The unique identifier for the managed object to which the method attaches; the serialized managed object reference for a request has the form moType/moId, in this case GuestAuthManager/{moId}.

string
release
Required

The vSphere release schema. The current specification covers vSphere 8.0.2.0 APIs.

Request Body
ReleaseCredentialsInGuestRequestType of type(s) application/json
Required 
{
    "vm": {
        "_typeName": "string",
        "type": "string",
        "value": "string"
    },
    "auth": {
        "_typeName": "string",
        "interactiveSession": false
    }
}
MoRefVirtualMachine
vm
Required

Reference to an instance of the VirtualMachine managed object.

GuestAuthentication
auth
Required

GuestAuthentication is an abstract base class for authentication in the guest.

Authentication
This operation uses the following authentication methods.
Responses
204

No Content

Operation doesn't return any data structure

500

GuestOperationsFault: if there is an error processing a guest operation.

GuestOperationsUnavailable: if the VM agent for guest operations is not running.

InvalidPowerState: if the VM is not powered on.

InvalidState: if the operation cannot be performed because of the virtual machine's current state.

TaskInProgress: if the virtual machine is busy.

GuestComponentsOutOfDate: if the guest agent is too old to support the operation.

OperationNotSupportedByGuest: if the operation is not supported by the guest OS.

OperationDisabledByGuest: if the operation is not enabled due to guest agent configuration.

InvalidGuestLogin: if the the guest authentication information was not accepted.

Returns VimFault of type(s) application/json
This response body class contains all of the following: MethodFault 
{
    "_typeName": "string",
    "faultCause": "MethodFault Object",
    "faultMessage": [
        {
            "_typeName": "string",
            "key": "string",
            "arg": [
                {
                    "_typeName": "string",
                    "key": "string",
                    "value": {
                        "_typeName": "string"
                    }
                }
            ],
            "message": "string"
        }
    ]
}

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