NOTE:This section applies only if you deployed Secure API Manager using the appliance.
Secure API Manager provides an appliance management console that allows you to configure network settings, apply patches and updates, and perform many other tasks for the appliance. You access the appliance management console for each appliance you have deployed. If you have deployed the Secure API Manager components on separate appliances and clustered the components, you have to access each appliance to apply patches and change network settings.
To increase the security of the appliance, we recommend that you set a password for the vaadmin user and use the vaadmin account as the appliance administrator when you configure Secure API Manager instead of using root.
In a web browser, specify the DNS name or the IP address for the appliance with the port number 9443. For example:
https://10.10.10.1:9443
or
https://dns-name-appliance:9443
Specify the administrative user name and password for the appliance, then click Sign in. The default user is root.
You configure your appliance for your environment at this point.