API users

Users who access the console through a client developed with the Java API or Perl API should be set up as User Type=API. Users of that type cannot access the console using a web client. However, users of that type can have more than one login session. Session information is shared automatically between sessions.

Multiple sessions opened by the same API user consume only one license. All sessions must be logged out in order to free the license. You can also use the root account free the license. See Managing users.

If you have users that need to access the console through both the web client and an API client, set up separate user IDs for them. Users who access the web console are either user type Normal or user type Read-only. Those user types cannot have multiple sessions. If a user attempts to log in a second time, the first login session is terminated.


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