Remove a data node user: Request

To remove a user from a data node, send the following request to its director node:

DELETE https://<IA_director_node_IP_address>/config/v1/users/<data_node_IP_address>/<user>

Note
To use this request, you must belong to the sudo group.

Required header:

--user <username>:<password>

Options

IA_director_node_IP_address—IP address of the director node running the NDR API.
username—Administrator username for the director node.
password—Administrator password for the director node.

Parameters

data_node_IP_address (path parameter)—The IP address of an NDR data node from which you wish to delete a user.
user (path parameter)—The user name of an NDR data node user that you want to delete.

Example

DELETE https://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/config/v1/users/yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy/jsmith

Required header:

--user npadmin:hammerhead

Remove a data node user: Response

HTTP/1.1 [Response Code] [Response Message]
Date: [Date]
Content-Type: [Content Type]

error:[error message if the delete operation is unsuccessful]
httpStatus:[Response Code]
success:[Boolean]

Response fields

Response Code—A standard HTTP response code.
Response Message—A standard HTTP response message.
Date—Standard HTML date format.
Content Type—The response format.
Boolean—Status of deletion (true or false)

Example

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 21:30:31 GMT
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
{
"error": "",
"httpStatus":200,
"success": true
}

cURL code sample: Remove a data node user

The code sample was run with cURL 7.57.0.

curl -k --user npadmin:hammerhead https:///xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/config/v1/users/yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy/msmith -X DELETE -X DELETE

This cURL sample includes the following options:

-k—This option explicitly allows cURL to perform insecure SSL connections and transfers, which allows you to test your SSL connection without installing a CA certificate.
--user npadmin:hammerhead—Replace npadmin with the administrator username for the director node. for the director node. Replace hammerhead with the corresponding administrator password for the director node.
https://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/config/v1/users/yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy/msmith— Replace xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx with the IP address of the director node NDR appliance. Replace yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy with the IP address of a data node NDR appliance from which you want to delete the user. Replace msmith with the user name of the user you wish to remove.
-X DELETE—This option specifies using the DELETE method.

Results

This example removes the specified data node user. The output is in JSON format.