Creating Custom Users to Perform apictl Operations

To perform tasks using the ESB API Controller (apictl), a particular user must have required scopes. From MWARE ESB 3.2.0 onwards, a new role named Internal/devops has been introduced who has the ability to perform all the apictl related operations. You just need to create a new user (Refer Adding a new User to learn about adding new users), assign the role Internal/devops and use that user to perform the apictl operations.

Minimal permissions and scopes required to perform apictl operations

Further, you can create your own custom user with a custom role to perform specific set of apictl operations. Refer the below table to learn about the required scopes that are needed for each of the apictl operation.

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Steps to create a custom user with a custom role for your need

  • As shown in Create user roles section, you can create your own custom user role by assigning scopes that are required to perform a particular set of apictl operations by referring the table below.
  • Then, create a user as explained in Adding a new User, by assigning the custom role that you created in the above step, to that user.
  • Now you can login to apictl (using apictl login <env-name> command) and perform the particular set of operations as per your need.

Note

  • The get api-logging command can be executed only with a user who has super admin permissions.
Operation Minimal Scopes
add env -
remove env -
get envs -
login -
logout -
get apis apim:api_import_export
get api-revisions apim:api_import_export
delete api apim:api_import_export
change-status api apim:api_import_export
import api apim:api_import_export
export api apim:api_import_export
export-apis apim:api_import_export
get api-products apim:api_product_import_export
get api-product-revision apim:api_product_import_export
delete api-product apim:api_product_import_export
change-status api-product apim:api_product_import_export
import api-product apim:api_product_import_export
export api-product apim:api_product_import_export,
apim:api_import_export
import api policy apim:policies_import_export
export api policy apim:policies_import_export
get apps apim:app_import_export
delete app apim:app_import_export
import app apim:app_import_export
export app apim:app_import_export
get keys apim:app_manage,
apim:sub_manage,
apim:api_product_import_export

or
apim:app_manage,
apim:sub_manage,
apim:api_import_export

or
apim:app_manage,
apim:sub_manage,
apim:api_view
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