Create a dedicated user To use the XML API, you must provide the logon credentials of a user with the Use XML API permission granted. McAfee recommends you to create a dedicated user for this purpose. Task On the Permissions page, select Users, then Create New User to add a user. Assign the new user Xml api permissions only. The Xml api and the related sub-permissions are added to the Selected permissions list. The administrator can assign selected sub-permissions, rather than all Xml api permissions. Results The XML API uses a Representational State Transfer (REST) format for request response processing. The XML REST API receives requests through standardized HTTP GET/POST parameters and the response is an XML response. Parent topic: XML API
Create a dedicated user To use the XML API, you must provide the logon credentials of a user with the Use XML API permission granted. McAfee recommends you to create a dedicated user for this purpose. Task On the Permissions page, select Users, then Create New User to add a user. Assign the new user Xml api permissions only. The Xml api and the related sub-permissions are added to the Selected permissions list. The administrator can assign selected sub-permissions, rather than all Xml api permissions. Results The XML API uses a Representational State Transfer (REST) format for request response processing. The XML REST API receives requests through standardized HTTP GET/POST parameters and the response is an XML response. Parent topic: XML API