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Skylar AutomationPowerPack and API-Key

  • January 7, 2026
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Hi,

We have moved away from using the ISadmin account for Skylar Automate. Instead of the we using a SSO integration for the users and for integrations the API-Key possibilities.

Looking at Skylar AutomationPowerPack v108 I can't see the option to use an API-Key in the SOAP/XML credential. 

My questions:

  • Did I overlooked something?
  • If not, how can we implement the API-Key?

I think the usage of API-Key is applicable for more ScienceLogic clients.

Thanks in advance.

Alfred

 

 

 

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    T

    Hello, 

    The team that owns this PowerPack (the Skylar Automation team) is not in this user group. That Powerpack was recently converted to the Snippet Framework in the latest release so it's likely it does support API key. This question might be better for the general discussion board so that team can see it. 

    - Taylor 

      J

      Hello,

      The Skylar Automation Monitoring PowerPack runs a command on the host over SSH. Because of this an API key can not be used because that is not valid on the host level. 

      Options with SSH:
      You have a few options with SSH if you do not want to use the `isadmin` account:
      * use an LDAP account: LDAP can be configured on the host system via SSSD. The host system is Oracle Linux so a knowledgable Linux admin would be needed to do this configuration. 
      * create a new system level account: In this approach you would add a new system level user.

      In either of these approaches the user would need to be a member of the `iservices` and `docker` group.

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