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Create One Global API Key

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Create one Global API Key for Ops Manager.

Base URL: https://{OPSMANAGER-HOST}:{PORT}/api/public/v1.0

Resource

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POST /admin/apiKeys

Required Roles

Requires that the API Key calling this endpoint have the Global Owner role.

Request Parameters

Request Path Parameters

This endpoint does not use HTTP request path parameters.

Request Query Parameters

The following query parameters are optional:

Name Type Necessity Description Default
pretty boolean Optional Flag indicating whether the response body should be in a prettyprint format. false
envelope boolean Optional

Flag that indicates whether or not to wrap the response in an envelope.

Some API clients cannot access the HTTP response headers or status code. To remediate this, set envelope=true in the query.

For endpoints that return one result, the response body includes:

Name Description
status HTTP response code
envelope Expected response body
false

Request Body Parameters

You must provide all request body parameters.

Name Type Necessity Description
desc string Required Description of the Global API Key. Must be between 1 and 250 characters in length.
roles string array Required

List of roles that the Global API Key needs to have. If the roles array is provided:

  • Provide at least one role
  • Make sure all roles are valid.

Global roles accepted by default include:

Role Value in API Role
GLOBAL_AUTOMATION_ADMIN Global Automation Admin
GLOBAL_BACKUP_ADMIN Global Backup Admin
GLOBAL_MONITORING_ADMIN Global Monitoring Admin
GLOBAL_OWNER Global Owner
GLOBAL_READ_ONLY Global Read Only
GLOBAL_USER_ADMIN Global User Admin

Response

Name Type Description
desc string Description of this Global API Key.
id string Unique identifier for this Global API Key.
links string An array of documents, representing a link to one or more sub-resources and/or related resources such as list pagination. See Linking for more information.
privateKey string Unredacted Private key for this Global API Key.
publicKey string Public key for this Global API Key.
roles object array Roles that this Global API Key has. This array returns all the Global roles the user has in Ops Manager.
roles.roleName string

Name of the role. This resource returns all the roles the user has in Ops Manager. Possible values are:

Role Value in API Role
GLOBAL_AUTOMATION_ADMIN Global Automation Admin
GLOBAL_BACKUP_ADMIN Global Backup Admin
GLOBAL_MONITORING_ADMIN Global Monitoring Admin
GLOBAL_OWNER Global Owner
GLOBAL_READ_ONLY Global Read Only
GLOBAL_USER_ADMIN Global User Admin

Example Request

Note

The user who makes the request can be formatted either as {USERNAME}:{APIKEY} or {PUBLIC-KEY}:{PRIVATE-KEY}.

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curl --user "{PUBLIC-KEY}:{PRIVATE-KEY}" --digest \
  --header "Accept: application/json" \
  --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --include \
  --request POST "https://<OpsManagerHost>:<Port>/api/public/v1.0/admin/apiKeys?pretty=true" \
  --data '{
    "desc" : "New API key for Global Testing",
    "roles" : [ "GLOBAL_READ_ONLY", "GLOBAL_USER_ADMIN" ]
  }'

Example Response

Response Header

HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
Content-Type: application/json;charset=ISO-8859-1
Date: {dateInUnixFormat}
WWW-Authenticate: Digest realm="MMS Public API", domain="", nonce="{nonce}", algorithm=MD5, op="auth", stale=false
Content-Length: {requestLengthInBytes}
Connection: keep-alive

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Type: application/json
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=300
Date: {dateInUnixFormat}
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: {requestLengthInBytes}
X-MongoDB-Service-Version: gitHash={gitHash}; versionString={ApplicationVersion}

Response Body

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{
  "desc" : "New API key for Global Testing",
  "id" : "5d669ce780eef52a42cf0e1e",
  "links" : [ {
    "href" : "https://<OpsManagerHost>:<Port>/api/public/v1.0/orgs/null/apiKeys/5d669ce780eef52a42cf0e1e",
    "rel" : "self"
  } ],
  "privateKey" : "8d080e57-5fd6-495c-9388-fe348ed1796f",
  "publicKey" : "cfswjfck",
  "roles" : [ {
    "roleName" : "GLOBAL_READ_ONLY"
  }, {
    "roleName" : "GLOBAL_USER_ADMIN"
  } ]
}

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