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User Management

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User Management

You can manage RBAC users and generate API user credentials.

User Account

You can create RBAC users and assign them specific access-based roles.

  1. Navigate to Admin > User Management and enter a unique First Name, Last Name, Email ID, and RBAC Password for each user.
  2. Assign each user with either Admin or User roles. The User role is allowed only view access for dashboards and reports. The Admin role is allowed to perform administrative operations on the FortiPresence GUI.
  3. Click Add User.

You can modify the assigned role and the password by clicking on Change Password. To delete a user, click the delete icon against the specific user.

API Users

You can access REST APIs in the Swagger interface using the configuration defined in this section. Read Only APIs are only supported.

  1. Click Generate API User to generate a unique API User ID and provide a (optional) Password. The API user credentials are created.
  2. Enter an optional Description for the API user.
  3. Click Add and Download Credentials to add the API details to FortiPresence VM and download them.

  4. Modify the API user access type to Active.
  5. Run the following command to generate an access token.
    $ curl -X POST -k 'https://{Application server FQDN/IP}:7443/api/token/' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H 'Accept: application/json' -d '{"username":"API User ID","password":"API User password" }'
  6. Access the Swagger interface, https://{Application server FQDN/IP}:7443/swagger and authorize using the access token.

User Management

You can manage RBAC users and generate API user credentials.

User Account

You can create RBAC users and assign them specific access-based roles.

  1. Navigate to Admin > User Management and enter a unique First Name, Last Name, Email ID, and RBAC Password for each user.
  2. Assign each user with either Admin or User roles. The User role is allowed only view access for dashboards and reports. The Admin role is allowed to perform administrative operations on the FortiPresence GUI.
  3. Click Add User.

You can modify the assigned role and the password by clicking on Change Password. To delete a user, click the delete icon against the specific user.

API Users

You can access REST APIs in the Swagger interface using the configuration defined in this section. Read Only APIs are only supported.

  1. Click Generate API User to generate a unique API User ID and provide a (optional) Password. The API user credentials are created.
  2. Enter an optional Description for the API user.
  3. Click Add and Download Credentials to add the API details to FortiPresence VM and download them.

  4. Modify the API user access type to Active.
  5. Run the following command to generate an access token.
    $ curl -X POST -k 'https://{Application server FQDN/IP}:7443/api/token/' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H 'Accept: application/json' -d '{"username":"API User ID","password":"API User password" }'
  6. Access the Swagger interface, https://{Application server FQDN/IP}:7443/swagger and authorize using the access token.