Create an NCentral Read-Only User and an API Key
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Step 1:
Log in to your NCentral administration console.
Select Administration > User Management > Users.
Select Create User.
Step 2:
Enter the following information:
First Name: epiphany
Last Name: systems
Login Name: epiphany
Password: Ensure your password follows your organization's password security policy.
Step 3:
Select the Role tab and select Assign Roles.
Check the Default Dashboard Role checkbox.
NCentral's API will not work with 2FA enabled during collection testing. Please do not enable 2FA for this user.
Step 4:
Select the API Access tab.
Check the API-Only User checkbox to enable API access for this user.
Select Save.
Step 5:
Select the login name of the user you just created to open the Modify User form.
Select the API Access tab and check the API-Only User checkbox.
To authenticate the API user with a web token, select GENERATE JSON WEB TOKEN and copy the token for login use in Add the NCentral Credentials to Epiphany. For more information, see Generate a JSON web token.
Select OK then select Save.
You now have a read-only user, and an API key generated for the user.
