Chapter 4. Retrieving the OpenShift Container Platform Management Token

After enabling cluster metrics on your OpenShift Container Platform deployment, retrieve the management token while you are still logged in to the OpenShift Container Platform host. This will be required later in Chapter 6, Adding OpenShift Container Platform as a Container Provider.

For OpenShift Container Platform 3.3 or later
Provide the token needed to add an OpenShift Container Platform 3.3 (or later) provider.

Run the following to obtain the token needed to add an OpenShift Container Platform 3.3 (or later) provider: 

# oc sa get-token -n management-infra management-admin
eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiI...
For OpenShift Enterprise 3.2
Provide the token needed to add an OpenShift Enterprise 3.2 provider.

Run the following to obtain the token needed to add an OpenShift Enterprise 3.2 provider: 

# oc sa get-token -n management-infra management-admin
eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiI...
For OpenShift Enterprise 3.1
Provide the token needed to add an OpenShift Enterprise 3.1 provider.

Run the following to obtain the token needed to add an OpenShift Enterprise 3.1 provider:

  1. Obtain the management service account token name: 

    # oc describe sa -n management-infra management-admin
...
Tokens:  management-admin-token-0f3fh
         management-admin-token-q7a87

  2. Select and describe one of the tokens to retrieve the full token output, replacing management-admin-token-0f3fh with the name of your token: 

    # oc describe secret -n management-infra management-admin-token-0f3fh
...
Data
====
token:  eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiI...