Access Management
Administrators can create time limited access URL’s to use the VNS3 Controller user interface. These access URL’s enable administrators to grant user access without managing credentials for each user. At any time, Administrators can revoke access and view the last access time of a user logged into the administrator via an access URL.
An administrator can create an access URL for a user for up to three days using the VNS3 Controller user interface. An administrator can also use the API to create an access URL and specify a custom lifetime period in the request.
Create Access URL
To create an access URL, click on the Passwords navigation item on the left, go to the Access URL’s section below Passwords and click the New Access URL button.
A New Access URL screen will pop up where you will enter the description of the URL and choose the lifetime of the URL, then click Generate.
The access URL will appear in the pop up where you can copy the URL. But don’t worry, if you forget to copy the URL, you can copy the link from the table at anytime using the Action button.
After you close the pop up, the newly created URL will appear in the table. Click on the Action button for the URL to see the options. Copy will copy the URL to your clipboard, Expire will cancel the URL access and Delete will cancel the URL and remote the URL from the table.
The Filter button enables you to view Access URL’s that are active, expired or view all.
A user connecting to the VNS Controller using an access URL will see a page header message displaying the length of time remaining in the validity period at the top of the screen.
API Tokens
Administrators can create time limited API tokens for a VNS3 Controller API access. This enables administrators to grant API user access without managing credentials for each user who wants to send requests to the API. At any time, Administrators can revoke the token and view the last access time of a user that used the token.
An administrator can create an API token for a user for up to a year using the VNS3 Controller user interface. An administrator can also use the API to create an API URL and specify the lifetime period in the request. When creating an API token, an option to auto-refresh upon use that enables the token to be used indefinitely as long as the token was used during the lifetime period.
Create API Token
To create an API token, click on the Passwords navigation item on the left, go to the API Tokens section below Passwords and click the New Token APbutton.
A New API Token screen will pop up where you will enter the description of the URL and choose the lifetime of the URL, choose to allow a token to automatically refresh, then click Generate.
The API token will appear in the pop up where you can copy the token. But don’t worry, if you forget to copy the token, you can copy the token from the table at anytime using the Action button.
After you close the pop up, the newly created API token will appear in the table. Click on the Action button for the token to see the options. Copy will copy the token to your clipboard, Expire will cancel the token and Delete will cancel the token and remove the token from the table.
The Filter button enables you to view API tokens that are active, expired or view all.