Generate an API Token

To use the Security Cloud Control API, you must have an API token. We recommend creating an API-only user in your Security Cloud Control tenant, and generating a token for it.

Procedure


Step 1

From the drop-down list under your username, click Preferences > General Preferences.

Step 2

In My Tokens, click Generate API Token.

Step 3

Save the token in a secure location in accordance with your enterprise's best practices for maintaining sensitive data.

The token is a long-lived bearer token used in the authorization header of REST API calls. The same token is used for both the Security Cloud Control API and the Cloud-Delivered FMC (cdFMC) API. For detailed API usage, endpoints, and examples, see https://developer.cisco.com/docs/cisco-security-cloud-control-firewall-manager/getting-started/#getting-started.