What minimum permissions are required for a given user to be allowed to make webservices_rest calls?

Products

• DX Unified Infrastructure Management (Nimsoft / UIM)
• CA Unified Infrastructure Management On-Premise (Nimsoft / UIM)

Issue/Introduction

When you make a REST call, it asks for a user name and password so we need to know what are the minimum UIM Group ACL permissions that user/group needs in order for the REST calls to work?

So for example if you're working with Maintenance Calls the required permissions are:

1. Basic Management
2. Web Service

What are the minimum UIM Group ACL permissions that user/group needs in order for the REST calls to work?

Environment

- Any supported UIM version 

Resolution

So it depends on the specific REST call you are making, and the required permissions for each REST call are contained within this document:

webservices_rest Call Reference

Additional Information

uimapi includes improvements over webservices_rest apis so  recommended to use uimapi instead of webservices_rest apis