Low level account just to use the REST API

[Anonymous]

Hey all,

I'm looking to create an account on my SA devices that will be just used to access the REST API. At this stage it would be preferred to just be a read only account(ie. no permission to change anything).

What would be the best way to accomplish this?

Cheers.

[KhaledGamal · Accepted solution]

Hi Jeremy,

To accomplish this, you need to create a user on the service itself. For example, let's take the concentrator, you can do that from "concentrator->security". The user you create here will not be able to login the UI, it will only have access to the concentrator. You will have to give this user a role that depends on what you need to do with this user after accesssing REST. You can check all the permissions that the role has by going to the Roles sub tab under "concentrator->security". Each permission has a description which tells you what this permission if granted does. If you want a customer role for that user here are the steps you can follow:-

1- Create a role with all the permissions you want to give to the REST user. "concentrator->security->Roles"

2- Go to the Users tab under "concentrator->security" and create a user and give it the role you created in step one.

3- You will have to replicate the role and user to all the services you need "Decoder/ Log decoder / Archiver"

Best Regards

Khaled

[Anonymous]

Thanks, I'll give that a try.