Before you use the Content Control API for the first time:
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Contact your Akamai representative to enable it for your account.
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A
contentProviderId
is given to the Content Provider. -
The Content Provider must obtain an authorization token using one of the supported flows using the client_id/client_secret from the application created by the CDN Operator.
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Review Get Started on tools that Akamai provides for all its APIs.
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Before you begin any API operations, you must obtain and store the value of the Content Provider IDs (
contentProviderId
) that you need from the AMC GUI. Using this Content Provider ID, you can obtain the origin IDs (originId
) from which you want to purge content.
To obtain Content Provider IDs and Origin IDs, follow these instructions:
- Log in to the AMC GUI using an account with LCDN Operator privileges. The CDN Health dashboard opens.
The default administrator account is
co@domain-name
, wheredomain-name
specifies the domain assigned to the AMC. Use the password you configured when you installed and configured the AMC.
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In the CDN Health dashboard, click Configure and under Content Delivery select Content Providers.
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In the Content Provider Management page, mouse over the name of a Content Provider to view the Content Provider ID.
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Store the value of the Content Provider IDs.
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To obtain a list of Origins associated with a particular Content Provider, please refer to the Content Delivery API
documentation.