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Admin setup

Each of the three admin interfaces (the pulsar-admin CLI tool, the REST API, and the Java admin API) requires some special setup if you have enabled authentication in your Pulsar instance.

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If you have enabled authentication, you need to provide an auth configuration to use the `pulsar-admin` tool. By default, the configuration for the `pulsar-admin` tool is in the [`conf/client.conf`](https://github.com/apache/pulsar/blob/master/conf/client.conf) file. The following are the available parameters:

|Name|Description|Default|
|----|-----------|-------|
|webServiceUrl|The web URL for the cluster.|http://localhost:8080/|
|brokerServiceUrl|The Pulsar protocol URL for the cluster.|pulsar://localhost:6650/|
|authPlugin|The authentication plugin.| |
|authParams|The authentication parameters for the cluster, as a comma-separated string.| |
|useTls|Whether or not TLS authentication will be enforced in the cluster.|false|
|tlsAllowInsecureConnection|Accept untrusted TLS certificate from client.|false|
|tlsTrustCertsFilePath|Path for the trusted TLS certificate file.| |

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You can find details for the REST API exposed by Pulsar brokers in the [REST API doc](pathname:///admin-rest-api/?version=@pulsar:version_number@).

If you want to test REST APIs in postman, you can use the REST API JSON files [here](pathname:///swagger/).

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To use the Java admin API, instantiate a [PulsarAdmin](/api/admin/org/apache/pulsar/client/admin/PulsarAdmin) object, and specify a URL for a Pulsar broker and a [PulsarAdminBuilder](/api/admin/org/apache/pulsar/client/admin/PulsarAdminBuilder) object. The following is a minimal example using `localhost`.

```java
String url = "http://localhost:8080";
// Pass auth-plugin class fully-qualified name if Pulsar-security enabled
String authPluginClassName = "com.org.MyAuthPluginClass";
// Pass auth-param if auth-plugin class requires it
String authParams = "param1=value1";
boolean tlsAllowInsecureConnection = false;
String tlsTrustCertsFilePath = null;
PulsarAdmin admin = PulsarAdmin.builder()
    .authentication(authPluginClassName,authParams)
    .serviceHttpUrl(url)
    .tlsTrustCertsFilePath(tlsTrustCertsFilePath)
    .allowTlsInsecureConnection(tlsAllowInsecureConnection)
    .build();
```

If you use multiple brokers, you can use multi-host like Pulsar service. For example,

```java
String url = "http://localhost:8080,localhost:8081,localhost:8082";
// Below are the same to the line 2 - line 13 in the code snippet above
// Pass auth-plugin class fully-qualified name if Pulsar-security enabled
String authPluginClassName = "com.org.MyAuthPluginClass";
// Pass auth-param if auth-plugin class requires it
String authParams = "param1=value1";
boolean tlsAllowInsecureConnection = false;
String tlsTrustCertsFilePath = null;
PulsarAdmin admin = PulsarAdmin.builder()
    .authentication(authPluginClassName,authParams)
    .serviceHttpUrl(url)
    .tlsTrustCertsFilePath(tlsTrustCertsFilePath)
    .allowTlsInsecureConnection(tlsAllowInsecureConnection)
    .build();
```

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