How to Generate API-Key in A360?

Prior to this, whenever we wanted to access the APIs, it required us to pass the username and password as parameters. From Automation Anywhere version 11.3.2 onwards, a new feature is supported with the Control Room for accessing APIs known as "API Key".

Now you can pass the "username" and "apikey" for performing API queries with no need to pass the password.

This is by default not enabled for any of the?System-created roles?& needs a?custom role?to be created to assign this feature.

How to Generate API-Key in A360?

We have divided the process of generating the API-Key in A360 into a two-step process.

Step 1: Assigning Generate API-Key role:

• Log in to the Control Room as an?Admin?user.
• Navigate to the?Administration>Roles?section & Create a new Role.
• Provide a?custom name?for the new role being created.
• Scroll down to the API section & select the?Generate API-Key?option under API.
• Assign the?users?available to assign this role to Generate the API-Key.
• Click on?Create Role?to Save the created Role.

Step 2: Generate an API-Key:

• Log in to the Control Room with the?user’s credentials?having the above-created role assigned.
• Once logged in, click on the username in the left pane bottom of the Control Room and click on?MySettings.
• Click on the?Generate API-Key?to generate the Key.

• If you already generated an API-Key then there would be a popup asking to regenerate it. Once you click on Yes, the existing API-Key and its references would be invalidated and a new API-Key would be generated. You would need to update the new API-Key in all your existing references.

• You can use the API-Key in the authentication API to get the authentication token.

Configuring API-Key Duration in A360

You can configure the duration for the API-Key generated using the above steps. The steps to configure the API-Key duration are:

1. Log in to the control room with an?Admin?user.
2. Navigate to?Administration > Settings > Security Settings?and update the?API-Key Duration?setting.

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