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Api to delete terminated users

Ruona DibieRuona Dibie Tyro
in API

We are currently looking into automating the process of reclaiming unused licenses as well as provisioning the licenses the LinkedIn employees. After chatting with our app owner, he explained to me that users automatically become in active after 6 months and the license is subsequently freed. This approach works but a lot of licenses would not be leverage well. Licenses of users that are no longer at the company would not be freed on time. Here are my asks:

 

  1. Is there an api endpoint that we can use make users inactive. I have looked through the api docs online, but I can’t seem to see any endpoint to use in making users inactive. Please can you share that endpoint if any?
  2. When users are inactive, does it count toward the licenses allotted to LinkedIn?
  3. What if we delete the user (admins). Can that also be used? Please can u also share that endpoint if any.


Answers

  • Kevin BaumKevin Baum Panopto Employee

    Hi Ruona,

    We do not have any API endpoint to make a user inactive, or remove their license, but our public SOAP API does have an endpoint to delete a user. If the user is deleted, the license would be reclaimed.

    You can use the IUserManagement.DeleteUsers SOAP API endpoint to delete a user. The calling user must be an admin in Panopto, but any user type can be deleted.

    I hope that helps. Please let me know if you have any other questions.

    Thanks,

    Kevin

  • Ruona DibieRuona Dibie Tyro

    Thank you so much Kevin. I have taken a look at the SOAP API and I believe that would work in my case. But how would I use this SOAP API? My goal is to make a call to the endpoint from a python script to run the workflow to trigger the user removal process.

  • Kevin BaumKevin Baum Panopto Employee

    Hi Ruona,

    Python should support libraries that can be used to call SOAP APIs. We also have a sample SOAP API wrapper and examples of how to call the SOAP API from Python on our public GitHub page. Please take a look at this example for calling the SOAP API from Python: https://github.com/Panopto/python-soap

    If you have any questions on the example, or run into any issues please let me know.

    Thanks,

    Kevin

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