Tokens

the tokens module allows you to create, view, and remove long term tokens these tokens help facilitate better communication between a manufacturing connect and its manufacturing connect edge instances you can use the api to mass deploy and configure edge instances these tokens are best utilized within a ci/cd script to manage manufacturing connect and its manufacturing connect edge instances each token has five built in attributes that define their characteristics and purposes token token name the name of the token token expiration date the expiration date of the token administrator the token has the instance administrator permissions edge api bridge (available for manufacturing connect 2 15 0 and later) allows you to integrate multiple manufacturing connect edge rest apis through a single manufacturing connect endpoint all catalogs the token has access to all marketplace catalogs view catalogs modify catalogs catalogs scope the list of marketplace catalogs with the permissions the token has access to after creating the token, you can use it in the api through the custom field x authtoken in the http header for example x authtoken zza82pio70xzsrwmsl1f0p6dsfvuzgo1 access tokens ui to access the tokens ui log in to manufacturing connect from the navigation panel, select admin console the dashboard pane by default appears from the navigation panel, select tokens the tokens pane appears refer to the following actions you can take on manufacturing connect admin console's tokens pane next steps add tokens docid 4nct70n4hd9ihe02aqtpd manage tokens docid\ ifxft7zeymx0vfgnfurcd