- Use the[Management Console][] API to perform common administrative tasks

- Use the[User Administration][] API to promote, demote, suspend, and unsuspend users

[Admin Stats]:admin_stats/

[License]:license/

[Search Indexing]:search_indexing/

[Management Console]:management_console/

[User Administration]:/v3/users/administration/

All API endpoints—except[Management Console][] API endpoints—are prefixed with the following URL:

Your Enterprise installation's API endpoints accept[the same authentication methods](http://developer.github.com/v3/#authentication) as the GitHub.com API. Specifically, you can authenticate yourself with**[OAuth tokens][]** (which can be created using the[Authorizations API][]) or**[basic authentication][]**.

[OAuth tokens]:/v3/oauth/

[basic authentication]:/v3/#basic-authentication

The[Admin Stats][],[License][],[Search Indexing][], and[User Administration][] API endpoints are only accessible to GitHub Enterprise site administrators. The[Management Console][] API endpoints are only accessible with a valid license file.

The[Admin Stats][],[License][],[Search Indexing][], and[User Administration][] API endpoints are only accessible to GitHub Enterprise site administrators. The[Management Console][] API endpoints are only accessible via the[Management Console password][].

[Authorizations API]:/v3/oauth_authorizations/#create-a-new-authorization

[OAuth tokens]:/v3/oauth/

[basic authentication]:/v3/#basic-authentication

[Admin Stats]:admin_stats/

[License]:license/

[Search Indexing]:search_indexing/

[Management Console]:management_console/

[User Administration]:/v3/users/administration/

[Management Console password]:https://enterprise.github.com/help/articles/setting-the-management-console-password

You need to pass[an MD5 hash](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD5#MD5_hashes) of your license fileas an authentication token to every Management Console API endpoint except[`/setup/api/start`](#upload-a-license-and-software-package-for-the-first-time). On most systems, you can get this hash by simply calling`md5sum` on the license file:

You need to passyour[Management Console password](https://enterprise.github.com/help/articles/setting-the-management-console-password)as an authentication token to every Management Console API endpoint except[`/setup/api/start`](#upload-a-license-and-software-package-for-the-first-time).

<preclass="terminal">

$ md5sum github-enterprise.ghl

5d10ffffa442a336061daee294536234 github-enterprise.ghl

</pre>

You can use the`license_md5` parameter to send this token with each request. For example:

Use the`api_key` parameter to send this token with each request. For example:

<preclass="terminal">

$ curl 'http://<em>hostname</em>/setup/api?license_md5=<em>md5-checksum-of-license</em>'

$ curl 'http://<em>hostname</em>/setup/api?api_key=<em>your-amazing-password</em>'

</pre>

You can also use standard HTTP authentication to send this token. For example:

<preclass="terminal">

$ curl 'http://license:<em>md5-checksum-of-license</em>@<em>hostname</em>/setup/api'

$ curl 'http://api_key:<em>your-amazing-password</em>@<em>hostname</em>/setup/api'

</pre>