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Modify user
 

Modify User Attributes API

This API helps in modifying user account in Active Directory from your application.

Request URL (JSON) Format: http:// <hostname> : <port> /RestAPI/ModifyUser

Request Parameters:

Parameters Mandatory Description
AuthToken Yes Authentication token obtained using the Generate AuthToken API.
domainName Yes Domain in which the user object has to be modified
inputFormat Yes

User modification template along with attribute details of the user accounts to be modified.

This attribute should be a JSONArray string and should be in the format mentioned below.

[<JSONObject>,<JSONObject>];JSONObject - key/value pair of LDAP attributes and their corresponding values.

Sample code in java:
JSONArray userDetails = new JSONArray(); JSONObject json = new JSONObject(); json.put("sAMAccountName", "John"); json.put("manager", "Scott"); json.put("department", "Designers"); userDetails.put(json); json = new JSONObject(); json.put("sAMAccountName", "Damien"); json.put("manager", "Scott"); json.put("department", "Designers");json.put("templateName","sampletemplatename");userDetails.put(json);

PRODUCT_NAME Yes Product name/module name from which the request is being sent; will be needed for auditing.
match_ldap_name No Specify the attributes to locate the user whose attributes you would like to modify.

The following are the attributes that can be specified along with this parameter:
sAMAccountName, employeeID, userPrincipalName, distinguishedName, cn, name, givenName, sn, displayName, profilePath, scriptPath, employeeNumber, mail, objectSID, and objectGUID.

Response:

The response will be a JSON array string which contains the list of JSONObjects. Each JSONObject in the list represents a user sent in the inputFormat attribute in the request. Each object will contain the following properties about the status.

Parameters Description
status Status of the user modification operation: 'SUCCESS' on successful modification. 'SEVERE' if there is an error.
statusMessage Contains the message about the issues or errors that occur while performing the specified action.
SAM ACCOUNT NAME sAMAccountName of the user account modified.
USER_NAME User name of the user account modified. 

Sample Input / Output

Request 1:

http://admanager:8080/RestAPI/ModifyUser?domainName=admp.local&AuthToken=244f8f17-041d-4c85-9924-02f7351a6fbb&inputFormat=[{"sAMAccountName":"John", "manager":"Scott", "department":"Designers"}, {"sAMAccountName":"Damien", "manager":"Scott", "department":"Designers"}]&PRODUCT_NAME=RESTAPI

Sample Response:

[{"USER_NAME":"John","LOG_ON_NAME":"John","statusMessage":"Successfully updated the user.","status":"SUCCESS"},{"USER_NAME":"Damien","LOG_ON_NAME":"Damien","statusMessage":"Successfully updated the user.","status":"SUCCESS"}]

Request 2:

http://admanager:8080/RestAPI/ModifyUser?domainName=division-dc1.local&PRODUCT_NAME=MODULE&match_ldap_name=sAMAccountName&inputFormat=[{"description":"Sales Department Staff", "sAMAccountName":"ByronTest","templateName":"sampletemplatename"}]&AuthToken=73b03d16-c82a-4c5c-ab89-dde5bae2162d

Sample Response:

[{"USER_EMAIL":"","SAM Account Name":"Byron","USER_NAME":"Byron","LOG_ON_NAME":"","statusMessage":"Successfully updated the user.","status":"SUCCESS"}]

Authorization:

When technicians send API requests, their authorization will be applied to those requests. That is, if a technician is not authorized to modify a user, the technician cannot modify user accounts using the API either.

Technician-based modify users limit

The total number of user accounts that technicians can modify in a day using the ModifyUser API depends on the total number of licensed help desk technicians (HDTs).

If an API is used to create five AD users, and three of them are successfully created while two fail, it will be considered as three API calls. The maximum number of API calls that an HDT can make is 50/day, irrespective of the tasks that the HDT performs. If you have two HDT licenses, the total number of API calls that you can make is 100/day.

As the per day API call limit is not task-specific, you can perform any operation but the total number of API calls should not exceed 100. That is, an HDTcan perform a variety of operations like user creation, OU creation, password reset, etc., but the number of API calls for all the tasks put together should not exceed 100.

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