# Rancher HA installation - retrieve api token
**URL:** https://forums.suse.com/t/rancher-ha-installation-retrieve-api-token/11541
**Category:** SUSE Rancher Prime
**Created:** [August 21, 2018, 12:16pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/rancher-ha-installation-retrieve-api-token/11541 "2018-08-21T12:16:36Z")
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### Author:  [@agondek-nordea](https://forums.suse.com/u/agondek-nordea)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2018, 12:16pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/rancher-ha-installation-retrieve-api-token/11541/1 "2018-08-21T12:16:36Z")
Hello!
I am trying to automate configuration of Rancher 2.0 - an obvious way to do so is to use the Rancher HTTP API - how to store / receive access token which is generated on the Rancher container start, so that my automation scripts are able to run command without any human interaction ?
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### Author:  [@agondek-nordea](https://forums.suse.com/u/agondek-nordea)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2018, 8:17am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/rancher-ha-installation-retrieve-api-token/11541/2 "2018-08-22T08:17:10Z")
Rookie mistake.
Appropriate token (which can be used for API operations on Rancher k8s cluster) is stored in cluster kubectl configuration file, created after rke run.
Mystery solved 🙂