What are service accounts?
Service Accounts is a feature on the Security Access Profiles page. You can use this feature to associate service accounts with security access profiles. This feature provides centralized security management through consistent policy enforcement for user-based and service‑based access.
Main benefits and purposes
Service accounts provide these benefits:
- Centralized management: Control service account security behavior through security access profiles.
- Consistent policy enforcement: Applies the same security overrides to both users and service accounts.
- Inherited security settings: Service accounts automatically inherit IP restrictions, session configurations, and other security overrides from its associated profiles.
These fields are available on the Service Accounts tab:
- Access Key: Shows the access key for each associated service account.
- Management Actions: Options to add or remove service account associations.
Important considerations and limitations
Security inheritance rules:
- Service accounts inherit all applicable security overrides from associated profiles.
- Security override behavior follows existing user and role-based assignment precedence rules.
- Changes must be saved to take effect.
Management scope:
- This feature provides association management only.
- Service accounts themselves are managed separately through other interfaces.
- The Service Accounts tab is used for linking existing service accounts to profiles, not creating new service accounts.
Access requirements:
- You need administrator-level access to Security Access Profiles.
- Changes must be saved to take effect.
Related concepts:
- Security Access Profiles: Container for security override settings.
- Service accounts: Non-user accounts used for system-to-system access.
- Security overrides: IP restrictions, session configurations, and other access controls.
- Access keys: Authentication credentials for service accounts.