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Nutanix Prism Central Authentication Guide (Basic Auth)

How to authenticate Nutanix Prism Central for use with Tines

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Written by Daniel Stoeski
Updated over a week ago

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"

For more on creating credentials in Tines, click here.

You can find a selection of Nutanix Prism Central stories in the story library

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