Manage credentials in SAM

There are several places within SAM and the SolarWinds Platform where you can track credentials for different features if your SolarWinds Platform account has administrator rights.

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Use the Manage Credentials page to store: API keys, Basic Auth, Bearer Token, and OAuth 2.0 credentials for API pollers SolarWinds Cloud Tokens used to: Integrate AppOptics monitoring with AppInsight for IIS. Monitor APM services in SAM. You can also access AppOptics directly from the Manage Credentials page. To learn more, see Manage credentials for API pollers, AppOptics integrations, and container monitoring in SAM.	Click Settings > All Settings. Under Credentials, click Manage API Poller Credentials.
Use the Credentials Library to manage user names and passwords for SAM component monitors that need to run in the context of a user account, or require credentials to access data on target servers. See Use the Credentials Library for SAM component monitor credentials.	Click Settings > All Settings. Under Product Specific Settings, click SAM Settings. Click Credentials Library.
Use the Certificate Credential Library to store user names, private keys, key types, and passwords for Linux and Unix script monitors. See Use the Certificate Credentials Library to store SSH keys for Linux/Unix script monitors.	Click Settings > All Settings. Under Product Specific Settings, click SAM Settings. Click Certificate Credentials Library.

More information is available in the SolarWinds Platform Administrator Guide, including:

• Assign credentials to virtual servers.
• Credentials and privileges used on Linux/Unix-based computers: Learn about credentials used by the SolarWinds Platform agent for Linux.
• Credentials for Active Directory discovery.
• SNMP credentials for the SolarWinds Platform: Learn about adding SNMP credentials during Discovery.