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title: "Creating User API Keys"
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<span style="color: #000000">If you are a signed-in user on </span><span style="color: #000000">Infoblox</span><span style="color: #000000"> Portal, you can create user API keys for yourself. Your administrator cannot create user API keys for you. You can create multiple user API keys that associate with your identity for different purposes. For example, you can create a key for an API script that retrieve a list of lookalike target domains, and create another key for a script that updates security policies.</span>

<span style="color: #000000"> Fourteen (14) days prior to expiration of your user API key, Infoblox will notify you in-app and via email on a daily basis. You can create a new API key to replace the old key to avoid interruptions with associated operations. You can view these notifications in the </span>**<span style="color: #000000">New Notifications</span>**<span style="color: #000000"> panel by clicking the notification icon (next to the search icon) on the top right corner of the Portal. Once a user API key expires, its </span>**<span style="color: #000000">STATE</span>**<span style="color: #000000"> changes to </span>**<span style="color: #000000">Expired</span>**<span style="color: #000000">, and you cannot enable or disable it anymore.</span>

<span style="color: #000000">To create a new user API key, complete the following:</span>

1. <span style="color: #000000">From the </span><span style="color: #000000">Infoblox</span><span style="color: #000000"> Portal, click your user name at the top right corner of the Portal and select </span>**<span style="color: #000000">Profile </span>**<span style="color: #000000">></span>**<span style="color: #000000"> User API Keys</span>**<span style="color: #000000">.</span>
2. <span style="color: #000000">On the </span>**<span style="color: #000000">User API Keys</span>**<span style="color: #000000"> page, click </span>**<span style="color: #000000">Create</span>**<span style="color: #000000">.</span>
3. <span style="color: #000000">In the </span>**<span style="color: #000000">Create User API Keys</span>**<span style="color: #000000"> dialog, complete the following:</span>
  - **<span style="color: #000000">Name</span>**<span style="color: #000000">: Enter the name of the user API key. Use a name that identifies the purpose of the key, so you can easily locate it in the future.</span>
  - **<span style="color: #000000">Expires at</span>**<span style="color: #000000">: Click the calendar icon to select a date and time when the user API key should expire. The maximum expiration time is 56 weeks or 13 months.</span>
4. <span style="color: #000000">Click </span>**<span style="color: #000000">Save & Close</span>**<span style="color: #000000"> to save the configuration.</span>
5. <span style="color: #000000">Click </span>**<span style="color: #000000">Copy</span>**<span style="color: #000000"> in the confirmation dialog to copy the user API key and save it for future use.</span>

> ❌ **Important Note**
> ❌ 
> ❌ <span style="color: #000000">The user API key you created appears only once in the dialog box. When you close the dialog, you will not be able to retrieve it. Ensure that you copy it and save it in a place where you can locate it in the future. Use a name that identifies the key if you have multiple keys.</span>