Limiting the number of REST API connections for a service user

Products

• CA Automic Workload Automation - Automation Engine
• CA Automic One Automation

Issue/Introduction

There is a user who ran hundreds of REST API calls all at the same time.  When doing this, everything was slow (e.g. login) until the REST API calls ended.  Is there a way to throttle the amount of REST API user connections at one time?

Resolution

Since the REST API uses the same settings as an actual user, you can set a maximum number of parallel connections on the user object itself.  This is in the User tab under the "Session" on the right hand side:

This should prevent so many connections at once against the REST API Process.