Select Appliance management console > Administrative Passwords
Secure API Manager is tightly integrated with Access Manager, reducing the number of configuration steps you must perform. To ensure secure communication between Secure API Manager and Access Manager, Secure API Manager uses the vaadmin account on the appliance so it does not use the root account. By default, the vaadmin account does not have a password set on the appliance. You must set the password for the vaadmin account for Secure API Manager to work.
To set the vaadmin password:
Log in to the appliance management console as root.
https://dns-name-appliance:9443
NOTE:You set the root password during the deployment of the appliance.
Click Administrative Passwords.
In the vaadmin section set a password for this account, then enter the password again.
Click OK.
(Conditional) If you have deployed more than one appliance to cluster Secure API Manager, you must repeat Step 1 through Step 4 on each appliance.
When you configure the API Gateway in the Access Manager Administration Console, you specify the vaadmin password for each node.
After you set the password for the vaadmin account, you need to install the Secure API Manager license to have the UI for configuring Secure API Manager appear in the Access Manager Administration Console. For more information, see Install the Secure API Manager License and Activation Key.