After completing this section, you should be able to create and configure Admin Portal users.

With Red Hat 3scale API Management you can have different types of users that administer your APIs by using the Admin Portal. These users manage the APIs and the Admin Portal and are not the same as the developer users, the people consuming your APIs.

Users administering APIs can have different roles:

You can create member users with limited permissions to share the administration tasks for your APIs.

For example, an organization might have one or more administrators with the admin role. An administrator can create users for the sales department with the member role, and limited permissions to access only the billing section in the Admin Portal. Also, an administrator can create users with access permission to a specific product. This means that for example the API development team might access only the products related to the API versioning strategy.

If your organization has departments that are independently developing their APIs, then you can provide a stronger administrative separation by creating a tenant per department. This way, you can isolate administration tasks at the department level.

You can find the tools to manage Admin Portal users in the Account Settings page in the Users menu.

To create new users you can:

In both cases, new users have the member role by default, and need additional permissions to do any work in the Admin Portal.

You can configure member users to have fine-grained permissions in the Admin Portal.

To update user permissions you must navigate to Users>Listing in the Accounts Settings page and select the user you want to configure. There you can update the user role to be admin or configure the member permissions.

There are two sets of access permissions that you can configure:

The product level access permissions can either be granted to all current and future products, or only to a subset of the available products.

As an Admin Portal user, you can subscribe to events related to the following 3scale API Management interactions.

You can configure your notification preferences by navigating to Personal>Notification Preferences in the Account Settings page.

Users with the admin role have access to all the available types of notifications.

Users with the member role can only receive notifications that relate to the access permission they have.

Users receive notifications by mail. Notifications also show in the notifications section in the Dashboard page.

You can interact with 3scale API Management by using the following APIs:

Depending on the API you want to use you need a different type of token.

Access tokens belong to the Admin Portal user, whereas service tokens are associated to the product. Therefore, different users will have their own access tokens, but they will share the service token for a product if they have access permission to that product.

As an Admin Portal user, you can create and edit the permissions for your own access tokens from the Personal>Tokens section in the Account Settings page. If your user has a member role then you can only create tokens for the APIs you have access to.

You can use access tokens and service tokens to explore the different 3scale API Management administration APIs in the 3scale API Docs page.