Akamai Enterprise Application Access

Connection Requirements

To obtain your API credentials, navigate to Identity and Access Management in Akamai Control Center and click Create API client. Click Quick and then Download under Credentials. This downloads an .edgerc file containing all four credential values below.

The file looks like this:

[default]
client_secret = C113nt53KR3TN6N90yVuAgICxIRwsObLi0E67/N8eRN=
host = akab-h05tnam3wl42son7nktnlnnx-kbob3i3v.luna.akamaiapis.net
access_token = akab-acc35t0k3nodujqunph3w7hzp7-gtm6ij
client_token = akab-c113ntt0k3n4qtari252bfxxbsl-yvsdj

1 - Host

The host value from your .edgerc file.

2 - Client Token

The client_token value from your .edgerc file.

3 - Access Token

The access_token value from your .edgerc file.

4 - Client Secret

The client_secret value from your .edgerc file.

5 - Contract ID

Your Akamai contract identifier. Contact your Akamai account team if you are unsure of your contract ID.

6 - Is Secure?

Choose this if your connection is going to be over HTTPS (optional, default: True).

7 - Thread Count

Number of parallel threads for sending API requests (default: 16).

8 - Sleep Time

Delay in seconds between thread starts. Increase this if you encounter rate limiting during user collection (default: 0).

9 - Proxy

Proxy URL (optional).

10 - Timeout

The amount of time (in seconds) to wait for API responses. (default: 30)

Attention

Please perform a connection test to ensure there is a valid connection to the Akamai Enterprise Application Access host. When the discovery operation is finalized you will be able to see the details on Assets page.