If you set the username and api_key variables in the /etc/uptrack-api.conf file, you do not need to supply these variables as command-line arguments to the scripts.

Place the variables under an [uptrack] section heading, for example:

[uptrack]
username = jo.admin@mydom.com
api_key  = 3af3c2c1ec407feb0fdc9fc1d8c4460c 

You can also set the username and api_key variables in the UPTRACK_API_USERNAME and UPTRACK_API_KEY environment variables, for example:

$ export UPTRACK_API_USERNAME=jo.admin@mydom.com
$ export UPTRACK_API_KEY=3af3c2c1ec407feb0fdc9fc1d8c4460c
$ uptrack-api-describe --this-machine