Configuring API authentication

As an Administrator, you can choose to authorize by sending a username and password with every request or can choose to setup OAuth for authentication.

OAuth tokens can also be generated for use with SCIM to provision users. To learn how to use SCIM for user provisioning, refer to the Provisioning users using SCIM.

There are two unique use cases relating to scope changes that may require you to create a new OAuth token.

• Adding a New Scope: After adding a new scope, the scope will not be added to the token by default. Therefore you will need to create a new token in order to access the additional scopes.
• Removing Scopes: When removing a scope, the scope will automatically be removed from all existing tokens by default. Therefore no new token is required and you can continue with using the old OAuth tokens.