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IT Analytics Release Notes
Manage data collection from Flex Appliance using short-lived access token
Flex Appliance v5.0 has a provision to convert a normal account to a service account, which is only capable of creating REST API calls to Flex Appliance and you can restrict its interaction to specific APIs in read-only mode. The provision of short-lived token, which can invalidate itself after a configurable time, is available to the service account.
IT Analytics can use this short-lived token to authenticate and perform data collection from the appliance while the token is live. Service account users can adjust the maximum token validity from the Flex Appliance Console to accommodate the data collection.