Activating and Deactivating a Service Principal

You can activate or deactivate a service principal on the client details page. You must activate a service principal before it can be used to make API requests.

Service principal users are only used by clients with the Resource Owner authentication flow. Other clients do not use service principals.

To activate a service principal

  1. Log into the API Client Management Application.
  2. Click the Manage Client Credentials link at the top of the page.
  3. Click the Details link next to the client you want to activate.
  4. Click the Activate service principal button.

The service principal is activated; you can now make requests to the Advance API using the client.

To deactivate a service principal

  1. Log into the API Client Management Application.
  2. Click the Manage Client Credentials link at the top of the page.
  3. Click the Details link next to the client with a service principal you want to deactivate.
  4. Click the Deactivate service principal button.

The service principal is deactivated. You must add a new service principal to the client before you can make requests to the Advance API using the client.