The appliance management console contains the Deployment Manager for Secure API Manager. In addition, it contains tools that allow you to perform administrative tasks, such as applying patches, managing certificates, and other tasks that you perform on each appliance. The appliance management console provides all of this functionality.
You access the appliance management console with the root account for the appliance. You define the password for root when you deploy the appliance. Ensure that you do not forget this password because you cannot reset the password for the root user. You can set a password for the vaadmin user and use this administrative account instead of using root. For more information, see Deploying a Secure API Manager Appliance
in the NetIQ Secure API Manager 1.1 Installation Guide.
https://ip-address-or-dns-name-appliance:9443
You log in with the root account the first time or you can set a password for the vaadmin account. For more information, see Setting Administrative Passwords.