proxy username Key

The proxy username key allows you to authenticate access to your HTTPS proxy server. There is no default value.

If you do not set a proxy username and password, proxy authentication is ignored.

If you define a username for your proxy server, you must also define the following:

Change this setting using one of the following methods:

Web UI (See Configuring an HTTPS Proxy Server Using the Web UI).
API custom configuration channels (see Using API Custom Configuration Channels).
Manually on individual endpoints using a text editor (see Modifying the Configuration File for a Single Endpoint).
For manual changes, the proxy username setting should be listed within quotation marks ("). Enclose the full list of proxy server settings in braces ({}).
{
"proxy": {
"type": "manual",
"host": "proxy.fireeye.com",
"port": 80,
"exclude_hosts": ["eng.fireeye.com", "host.fireeye.com"],
"exclude_local_hosts": true,
"username": "<proxy-user>",
"password": "<proxy-user-password>"
}