How to Generate API-Key to access APIs in A360? -

In this post, we will be demonstrating the use of Generate API-Key to access APIs in A360.

From Automation Anywhere version 11.3.2 onwards, a new feature is supported with the Control Room for accessing APIs. This is by default not enabled for any of the System-created roles & needs a custom role to be created to assign this feature.

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How to Generate API-Key to access APIs 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:

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

Further Reference

You may read the example on Automation Anywhere’s Docs portal.

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