# Does central beat management support API to enroll the beats? **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Created:** [April 23, 2019, 11:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-central-beat-management-support-api-to-enroll-the-beats/178017 "2019-04-23T11:10:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![subhash.parise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@subhash.parise](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/subhash.parise)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2019, 11:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-central-beat-management-support-api-to-enroll-the-beats/178017/1 "2019-04-23T11:10:25Z")
Dear community members, we are using central beats management in kibana-ui to enroll the beats. the same thing we need to achieve by ansibleplay book. do we have api support to enroll the beats ? i haven't found much info in documentation. Any help much appreciated. Thank you in advance. ---
**Author:** ![steffens](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/steffens/32/79630_2.png) [@steffens](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/steffens)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2019, 9:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-central-beat-management-support-api-to-enroll-the-beats/178017/2 "2019-04-23T21:36:03Z")
One can use username+password based enrollment to enroll a Beat via command line only: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/enroll-beats.html#username-password-enrollment](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/enroll-beats.html#username-password-enrollment) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2019, 11:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-central-beat-management-support-api-to-enroll-the-beats/178017/3 "2019-05-21T23:36:07Z")
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