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title: Clients
description: Create and manage secure client tokens for API authentication, ensuring authorized access to external applications and services.
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import { Aside, Steps } from '@astrojs/starlight/components';

# Clients

![Client Token](/images/Administration/Control-Center/Clients/Client-Token.png)

A client in Infoveave is used to authenticate external applications or services when accessing Infoveave’s APIs securely. By creating a client, you allow authorized applications to interact with data in Infoveave.

Here is a step by step guide to configuring a client

<Steps>
1. Navigate to **Administration <i class="fa-duotone fa-regular fa-arrow-right"></i> Control Center**.
2. Click on **Clients**.
1. Click on the **New Client** button to configure a new client. 
![New Client Token](/images/Administration/Control-Center/Clients/New-Client-Token.png)
2. Enter a **Name** for the client.
3. Provide a unique **Client Id**. The client Id serves as a unique identifier for the external application. It is used during the authentication process.
4. Specify the lifetime duration of the access token in seconds in **Access token lifetime**. The access token is the key used to authenticate the external application’s requests. After the specified duration, the token expires and requires renewal.
5. The **Secret key** is used to sign and validate the client. This ensures that only authorized parties can use it.
6. Click **Save** to add the new client to the system.
7. To edit any client, select the required client and click on **Edit** <i class="fa-duotone fa-regular fa-pen"></i>  icon.
8. To delete any client, select the required client and click on **Delete** <i class="fa-duotone fa-regular fa-trash"></i> icon.
</Steps>

<Aside>
* The secret key is displayed only once. Make sure you copy and save the secret key.
* Once saved, the Name and the Client Id cannot be edited.
</Aside>

## Using the Client 

<Steps>
1. Open **Postman** or any other URL triggering tool.
![client configuration](/images/Administration/Control-Center/Clients/client-config.png)
2. Select the **POST** request.
3. Provide the url - **https://your_tenant/connect/token**.
4. Enter the Client Id, Client secret, and grant type under the key and value section.
5. Click on the **Send** button.
6. You receive the access token.
</Steps>