Enabling Avaya Digest authentication to authenticate REST API clients

Last Updated : Oct 07, 2020 |
Prolog information
In Avaya Digest authentication, Presence Services authenticates the user name and password of the client against the profile data of the user that is configured in System Manager.
Presence Services verifies the client-provided user name against the Presence/IM handle of the user and the client-provided password against the communication profile password.
  1. On the System Manager web console, navigate to ElementsAvaya Breeze®Configuration.
  2. Click Attributes.
  3. On the Service Clusters tab, in the Cluster field, click the Presence Services cluster.
  4. In the Service field, click the Presence Services service.
  5. On the Attributes Configuration page, navigate to the Client REST Services group.
  6. In the Enable Client REST Services field, in Effective Value, click True.
  7. In the Authentication Mechanism field, in Effective Value, click Avaya.
  8. In the Session Expiry field, in Effective Value, specify the session time out in minutes.
    ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
    The default time is 15 minutes.
    You can ignore all other attributes in the Client REST Services group for Avaya Digest authentication.
  9. To override the default value, select the Override Default check box.
  10. Click Commit.