Using Flex Appliance Console accounts for API automation
Flex Appliance includes the following features that you can use to manage or monitor your appliances through API automation:
Personal API tokens
You can generate a personal API token for an account and use that token for API access. Each account can have a maximum of one personal API token, and you can revoke it, change its expiration or description, or update the IP addresses from which it is accepted at any time.
Service accounts
You can convert a regular user account to a service account that can only be used for API access. It does not have access to the Flex Appliance Console. A service account can have any number of tokens, but they cannot be revoked. The token expiration is determined by the maximum token validity that you set.