title: How to send credentials to vCenter REST api
body: <p>When I attempt to hit vCenters auth endpoint in the web browser, i get a 404 and when i try in postman, it can't get any response </p>
  
  <p>I've set up a test environment for vSphere on my mac using vmware fusion. I have 1 ESXi instance hosting an instance of vCenter. While trying to make rest calls to vCenter on Postman, it says I could not get any response.</p>
  
  <pre><code>https://{vCenterIP}/rest/com/vmware/cis/session
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>is what I'm trying to hit.</p>
  
  <p>it appears that the expected result is the following json object</p>
  
  <pre><code>{
      "value": "dfbERG34ge24SSEfg"
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>the value being the authentication token. What I am receiving from the web browser is </p>
  
  <pre><code>{
    "name": "com.vmware.vapi.rest.httpNotFound",
    "localizableMessages": [
      {
        "defaultMessage": "Not found.",
        "id": "com.vmware.vapi.rest.httpNotFound"
      }
    ],
    "majorErrorCode": 404
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Again, I'm not getting any response from Postman for any of the vCenter REST enpoints</p>