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1. Host IP address as in 142.250.67.196. This means the API user account can be used to invoke APIs from this IP address alone.

2. IP address range using Network address / mask notation (aka CIDR notation). For example: 142.250.0.0/16. This allows to invoke API from any IP falling the range - 142.250.0.0 - 142.250.255.255 (for a total of 65,025 IP addresses)

3. Few more examples:

   1. 142.250.67.0/24 signifies the range 142.250.67.0 - 142.250.67.255 (for a total of 255 IP addresses)

   2. 142.250.67.248/29 specifies the range 142.250.67.248 - 142.250.67.255 (for a total of 8 IP addresses)

Frequently Asked Questions

1. How to reset the password of an API user?

  Ans: You can either reset it manually via the UI or include the reset password process in your API code.

API Details:

{
  "userId": <userId>,
  "oldPassword": "<oldPassword>",
  "newPassword": "<newPassword>""
}

2. Is there any way to stop expiring API user password? 

 Ans: No. You have to manually reset the API user password or update the code to reset the password programmatically using #1.

3. Can we configure multiple subnets in the IP address field?

   Ans: Yes, you can configure multiple subnet IP ranges. Each IP range has to be separated using a comma. 

For e.g, 192.168.0.0/16,204.48.25.207,104.131.254.19