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title: Administration System Security
slug: ps/help/en_us/vtm/userguide/administration-system-security
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createdAt: 2026-08-02T07:48:41.659Z
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This chapter describes how to control access to the administrative components of the Virtual Traffic Manager system – the Web-based Admin UI, the REST API, the Control API (and, by implication, the CLI) and remote access through SSH (virtual appliance/cloud instances only).

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Throughout this chapter, the term Administration Server (or Admin Server) is used to represent the service through which all administrative components are controlled or routed.
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