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l Client password: password
l Authentication server IP address: 10.11.12.13
l Authentication command: authenticate
l Key to validate authentication request: $abcd$1234$
l Key is sent in cleartext format
Response from the controller
server=10.11.12.13, command=authenticate, version=1.0, secret=$abcd$1234$sessid=
Message authentication is cleartext ($abcd$1234$)
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 23:23:42 GMT
Server:
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/xml
<authresponse>
<status>Ok</status>
<code>0</code>
</authresponse>
Status of the client after authentication
The following show user command shows the role of the client is change to guest after the authentication
request is processed by the controller.
(host) #show user
Users
-----
IP MAC Name Role Age(d:h:m) Auth VPN link AP name Roaming
Essid/Bssid/Phy Profile Forward mode Type Host Name
---------- ------------ ------ ---- ---------- ---- -------- ------- --- ---- --
------------- ------- ------------ ---- ---------
10.10.10.248 00:19:d2:01:0b:84 John guest 00:00:04 Web
User Entries: 1/1
Querying for Client Details
This command will fetch a all details about a client connected in your network. Querying Client Information—
request and response
john@linux:/home/john/tools/xml-api# ./auth -i 10.10.10.249 10.11.12.13 query $abcd$1234$
This commands sends the following information in the request to the controller:
l Client IP address: 10.10.10.249
l Client username: john
l Client password: password
l Authentication server IP address: 10.11.12.13
l Authentication command: query
l Key to validate authentication request: $abcd$1234$
l Key is sent in cleartext format
Response from the controller
server=10.11.12.13, command=query, version=1.0, secret=$abcd$1234$sessid=
Message authentication is cleartext ($abcd$1234$)
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