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49 REST API Guide  OpenManage Essentials | Revision A02
URL
The URL for the web-based management application.
GUID
A unique identifier for the OpenManage Essentials instance.
2.14 Current user information
The following resource URI can be used to access information about the currently authenticated user:
<BASE_URI>/CurrentUser
Operations supported: GET
The attributes associated with the current user information is described in the following table.
Attribute Name
Description
UserName
The name of the currently authenticated user
UserType
The type of the user
The type of user is defined in the following table.
User Type
Description
0
Not defined (unknown)
1
OMEAdministrator
2
OMEDeveloper
3
OMEGuest
4
OMEUser
5
OMEPowerUser
6
OMESiteAdministrator
2.15 User permissions
The following resource URI can be used for accessing the user permissions of the currently logged-in user:
<BASE_URI>/UserPermissions/{SID of user}
This is typically an API that will be used by third party consumers programmatically. The {SID} needs to be
provided as parameter.
This API returns the permissions associated with the logged in user ID. The permissions are represented as a
collection of integers.