Enabling sideband authentication

Enabling sideband authentication ensures a secure the connection between your API gateway and API Security Enforcer (ASE).

About this task

To enable sideband authentication:

Steps

Run the enable_sideband_authentication command.

Example:

/opt/pingidentity/ase/bin/cli.sh enable_sideband_authentication -u admin -p admin
Sideband authentication is successfully enabled

To generate an ASE sideband token, run the create_sideband_token command.

Example:
```
/opt/pingidentity/ase/bin/cli.sh create_sideband_token -u admin -p admin
Sideband token d9b7203c97844434bd1ef9466829e019 created.
```
This token is configured in the API gateway for it to communicate securely with ASE.