Introduction

In the Eagle Eye Cloud VMS resellers are able to create end user <<glossary:account>>s for their clients. A reseller can access their end user <<glossary:account>>s to provide various services such as configuration and troubleshooting. The /authorizationTokens API allows a reseller to retrieve a <<glossary:access token>> for a particular end user <<glossary:account>>.

Retrieving an access token for an end user

Follow these steps to retrieve an <<glossary:access token>> for an end user <<glossary:account>>:

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Important

Getting an <<glossary:access token>> for an end user <<glossary:account>> does not void the reseller's <<glossary:access token>>. The reseller can use its own <<glossary:access token>> to log in to its own <<glossary:account>> after the account switching process.

1. Log in with a reseller <<glossary:account>> by following the regular Login process.
2. Get a list of <<glossary:account>>s your reseller <<glossary:account>> has access permissions to through the /accounts endpoint.
3. Retrieve the given end user's token with the following POST request:

curl --location 'https://auth.eagleeyenetworks.com/api/v3.0/authorizationTokens' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--header 'Accept: application/json' \
--header "Authorization: Bearer <reseller's access token>" \
--data "{
  'type': 'reseller',
  'targetType': 'account',
  'targetId': '<end-user's account ID>',
  'scopes': [
    'vms.all'
  ]
}"

A sample response to the above request:

{
  "accessToken": "string",
  "expireTimestamp": "2023-06-23T13:26:29.368Z",
  "scopes": [
    "string"
  ]
}