Exporting users from the Aria Operations for Logs UI

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

You need to export users from the Aria Operations for Logs UI who have access for audit purposes.

Environment

Aria Operations for Logs 8.x

Resolution

By current design, Aria Operations for Logs does not have this feature in the UI. 

Workaround:

1. Go to https://<AriaOperationsforLogs_IP_or_FQDN>/rest-api.

2. Scroll down and expand sessions, then expand POST /sessions as shown below. Then click on "Try it out".

3. In the following Request body, type in admin as the username and then its password. Then click on Execute.

4. You should see the first server response with code 200 as shown below. Copy the session ID as highlighted to a notepad.

5. Scroll up and click on Authorize as shown below:

6. Copy and paste the session ID captured from step 4 in the Value field. Then click Authorize. See below:

7. Scroll down to locate GET /users as shown below, then click on "Try it out":

8. Click Execute in the following section:

9. You should see the first server response with code 200 as shown below. You can download this response body to gather the user list.

 

Additional Information

Customers can work with the Technical Adoption Manager on submitting a feature request to have this functionality prioritized for inclusion in a future version of the product.