Contains the local usergroups of SPS. You can use local groups to control the privileges of SPS local and LDAP users — who can view and configure what. You can edit the group memberships here as well.

Note that currently you cannot edit the privileges (ACLs) of the groups using the REST API. If you change the privileges of a usergroup on the SPS web interface, the changes will apply to the users when they authenticate again on SPS, the privileges of active sessions are not affected.

URL

GET https://<IP-address-of-SPS>/api/configuration/aaa/local_database/groups

Cookies

Cookie name	Description	Required	Values
session_id	Contains the authentication token of the user	Required	The value of the session ID cookie received from the REST server in the authentication response, for example, a1f71d030e657634730b9e887cb59a5e56162860. For details on authentication, see Authenticate to the SPS REST API. Note that this session ID refers to the connection between the REST client and the SPS REST API. It is not related to the sessions that SPS records (and which also have a session ID, but in a different format).

Sample request

The following command lists the local usergroups.

curl --cookie cookies https://<IP-address-of-SPS>/api/configuration/aaa/local_database/groups

Response

The following is a sample response received when querying a particular usergroup endpoint.

For details of the meta object, see Message format.

{
    "body": {
        "members": [],
        "name": "http-write"
    },
    "key": "ca2dc85730ca082ee6b5c8",
    "meta": {
        "first": "/api/configuration/aaa/local_database/groups/224696054489c27f6c5710",
        "href": "/api/configuration/aaa/local_database/groups/ca2dc85730ca082ee6b5c8",
        "last": "/api/configuration/aaa/local_database/groups/ca2dc85730ca082ee6b5f8",
        "next": "/api/configuration/aaa/local_database/groups/b080b1ba546232548bb1f9",
        "parent": "/api/configuration/aaa/local_database/groups",
        "previous": "/api/configuration/aaa/local_database/groups/b080b1ba546232548bb1a9",
        "transaction": "/api/transaction"
    }
}

Element		Type	Description
body		Top level element (JSON object)	Contains the properties of the usergroup.
	members	list	Lists the names of the users belonging to the group.
	name	string	The name of the group.
key		string	Top level element, contains the ID of the endpoint.

Status and error codes

The following table lists the typical status and error codes for this request. For a complete list of error codes, see Application level error codes.

Code	Description	Notes
401	Unauthenticated	The requested resource cannot be retrieved because the client is not authenticated and the resource requires authorization to access it. The details section contains the path that was attempted to be accessed, but could not be retrieved.
401	AuthenticationFailure	Authenticating the user with the given credentials has failed.
404	NotFound	The requested object does not exist.
409	NoTransaction	No open Transaction is available. You must open a transaction first (for details, see Open a transaction).

Add new local usergroup

To create a new local usergroup, you have to POST the name and members of the group as a JSON object to the https://<IP-address-of-SPS>/api/configuration/aaa/local_database/groups endpoint. For details, see Create a new object.

1. Open a transaction.

   For details, see Open a transaction.

2. Create a new usergroup.

   POST the name of the group and the list of member accounts as a JSON object to the https://<IP-address-of-SPS>/api/configuration/aaa/local_database/groups endpoint. The body of the POST request should be the following. Note that you must refer to existing user accounts, and use their reference IDs, not their usernames.

   {
       "name": "new-userggroup",
       "members": ["46785097158061f46c63d0", "1362061674580df4e00620d"]
   }

   For example:

   curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" --cookie cookies https://<IP-address-of-SPS>/api/configuration/aaa/local_database/groups --data '{"name": "new-usergroup", "members": ["46785097158061f46c63d0", "1362061674580df4e00620d"]}'

   If the POST request is successful, the response includes a reference ID for the usergroup object.

3. Commit your changes.

   For details, see Commit a transaction.

Delete usergroup

To delete a usergroup, you have to:

1. Open a transaction (for details, see Open a transaction).

2. DELETE the https://<IP-address-of-SPS>/api/configuration/aaa/local_database/groups/<ID-of-the-group> endpoint. For details, see Delete an object. If the DELETE request is successful, the response includes only the meta object, for example:

   {
       "meta": {
           "href": "/api/configuration/aaa/local_database/groups/b080b1ba546232548bb1a9",
           "parent": "/api/configuration/aaa/local_database/groups"
       }
   }

3. Commit your changes to actually delete the object from SPS (for details, see Commit a transaction).

Delete user from usergroup

To delete a user from a usergroup, you have to:

1. Open a transaction (for details, see Open a transaction).

2. Create an updated version of the usergroup object that does not include the user you want to delete.

3. PUT the updated usergroup object to the https://<IP-address-of-SPS>/api/configuration/aaa/local_database/groups/<ID-of-the-group> endpoint. For details, see Delete an object.

4. Commit your changes to actually delete the object from SPS (for details, see Commit a transaction).