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Nutanix Prism Authentication Guide

How to authenticate Nutanix Prism Central for use with Tines

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Written by Daniel Stoeski
Updated over 12 months ago

This authentication guide will cover how to create a credential for the following services:

  1. Nutanix Prism Central

  2. Nutanix Prism Element

Nutanix Prism Central

Nutanix Prism Central (PC) offers an organizational view into a distributed Nutanix deployment, with the ability to attach all remote and local Nutanix clusters to a single Prism Central deployment. This global management experience offers a single place to monitor performance, health, and inventory for all Nutanix clusters.

To create a Nutanix Prism Central credential, you will need your Nutanix Prism Central:

  • username

  • password

Create a Nutanix Prism Central resource and credential in Tines

  1. Login to your Tines tenant

  2. Navigate to the team that will be using the API and click "Resource"

  3. Click "+ New Resource"

  4. Input the values for the Nutanix Prism Central resource

    • Name: "nutanix_user"

    • Description: Optional

    • Builder: Your username

  5. Optional

    • Access: What other teams can also use the resource

  6. Click "Save resource"

  7. Navigate to the team that will be using the API and click "Credentials"

  8. Click "+ New Credential" and select "Text"

  9. Input the values for the Nutanix Prism Central credential

    1. Name: "nutanix_password"

    2. Description: Optional

    3. Value: Your password

  10. Optional

    1. Domains: Ensure this credential can only be used when making HTTP requests to specific domains.

    2. Access: What other teams can also use the API

  11. Click "Save"

Nutanix Prism Element

Prism Element(PE) is a service built into the platform for every Nutanix cluster deployed. Prism Element enables you to fully configure, manage, and monitor Nutanix clusters running any hypervisor.

To create an Nutanix Prism Element credential, you will need your Nutanix Prism Element:

  • username

  • password

Create a Nutanix Prism Element resource and credential in Tines

  1. Login to your Tines tenant

  2. Navigate to the team that will be using the API and click "Resource"

  3. Click "+ New Resource"

  4. Input the values for the Nutanix Prism Element resource

    • Name: "nutanix_pe_user"

    • Description: Optional

    • Builder: Your username

  5. Optional

    • Access: What other teams can also use the resource

  6. Click "Save resource"

  7. Navigate to the team that will be using the API and click "Credentials"

  8. Click "+ New Credential" and select "Text"

  9. Input the values for the Nutanix Prism Element credential

    1. Name: "nutanix_pe_password"

    2. Description: Optional

    3. Value: Your password

  10. Optional

    1. Domains: Ensure this credential can only be used when making HTTP requests to specific domains.

    2. Access: What other teams can also use the API

  11. Click "Save"

For more on creating credentials in Tines, click here.

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