API Authentication and Security
To authenticate your API request to the firewall or Panorama,
provide the API key in any of the following ways:
Use
the custom HTTP header, X-PAN-KEY: <key> to
include the API key in the HTTP header.
For the XML API, include the API key as a query parameter
in the HTTP request URL.
Use
Basic Authentication to
pass the admin credentials as
username:password with
Base64 encoding in an Authorization header field.
Authorization: Basic amJPbLxpbw9UaTpXb3JrKjIwMDA=
To enforce key rotation set an
API key lifetime; you
can also revoke all API keys to protect from accidental exposure.
