Endpoint for managing local users on VBR

[mikeely]

Given longstanding Veeam recommendations against having VBR domain-joined, all of our Veeam 13 users are local users (we're using the Linux appliances obviously). This creates an obvious management headache as each user has to be added twice: first to the host manager and second to the VBR application.

I've been building an Ansible role for user and group management so that we have a verifiable way of ensuring the correct Veeam users exist with the correct roles and that the correct roles exist and have the correct privileges, but this work has run aground as I'm unable to find the endpoint for the host manager. It's probably somewhere in the docs and I've just missed it, because no way would Veeam have shipped without some kind of end-to-end way to manage users and roles programmatically, right?

[vnikiforov]

Hello, Mike,

There is no supported API for the Host Management console today. The API behind port 10443 is private and not meant for customer use as of today, see VSA - Host Management Console API.

As an alternative I may suggest SAML authentication. External users and groups are added and given roles through the Users and Roles REST endpoints, and no local appliance account is involved.

For local accounts, the Host Management Create User wizard assigns the backup server role in the same pass since 13.1, so the second step in the backup console is gone. But still, as of yet remains a UI operation.

A public Host Management REST API is planned. No ETA yet.