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Creating an XML Request
You can create XML requests to add, delete, authenticate, blacklist, or query a user. This section provides XML
request formats that you can use for each authentication tasks:
Adding a User
This XML requests uses the user_add command to create a new user entry in the Dell controllers user table. If the
user entry is already present in the user table, the command will modify the entry with the values defined in the
XML request.
xml=<aruba command="user_add">
<ipaddr>IP-address_of_the_user</ipaddr>
<macaddr>MAC-address_of_the_user</macaddr>
<name>User_Name</name>
<role>Role_Name<role>
<session_timeout>Session_timeout</session_timeout>
<key>Shared_Key</key>
<authentication>MD5|SHA-1|cleartext</authentication> #select any one
<version>1.0</version>
</aruba>
The following options are mandatory when you execute the user_add command:
l IP Address
l Version
Deleting a User
This XML requests uses the user_delete command to delete an existing user from the Dell controllers user table. If
the user entry contains multiple attributes these must be specified in the XML request
xml=<aruba command="user_delete">
<ipaddr>IP-address_of_the_user</ipaddr>
<macaddr>MAC-address_of_the_user</macaddr>
<name>User_Name</name>
<key>Shared_Key</key>
<authentication>MD5|SHA-1|cleartext</authentication> #select any one
<version>1.0</version>
</aruba>
The following options are mandatory when you execute the user_add command:
l IP Address
l Version
Authenticating a User
This XML requests uses the user_authenticate command to authenticate and derive a new for the user.
xml=<aruba command="user_authenticate">
<ipaddr>IP-address_of_the_user</ipaddr>
<macaddr>MAC-address_of_the_user</macaddr>
<name>User_Name</name>
<password>Password_for_the_user</password>
<key>Shared_Key</key>
<authentication>MD5|SHA-1|cleartext</authentication> #select any one
<version>1.0</version>
</aruba>