Authentication Integration Guide

Please read the General integration guide to learn the general concepts and common data structures used throughout the Argus API.

Tip

The Swagger API documentation is always up-to-date and lets you try out any query with your user session or an API-key.

contents

• The Argus Authentication Service
• Administrator management of user authentication settings
  • API-key management
    • Listing a users API-keys
    • Creating a new API-key
    • Deleting an existing API-key
  • OpenID user configuration management
  • Cryptographic key management
    • List a users cryptographic keys
    • Evict a users cryptographic key replay cache
  • Authentication settings for other methods
• Current user permission queries
  • List customers available in session
  • List groups which the current user is member of
  • List functions available in session
  • Check for specific permission
• Session management
  • Deleting the session
  • Clearing the session cache
  • Deleting the session for another user
• Argus Identity Provider Integration Guide
  • OAuth2 Integration
    • Understanding Argus OAuth2 Clients
      • Argus OAuth2 Access Control
      • Argus OAuth2 Permission Scope
      • Argus OAuth2 Client IP Restriction
  • OAuth2 Authorization Code Flow
  • OAuth2 Implicit Flow
    • Fetching ID token using implicit flow
    • Fetching access token using implicit flow
  • OAuth2 Client Credentials Flow
  • OpenID Connect Support
    • Enabling OpenID Connect
    • Valid scopes in Argus
    • Custom OpenID Claims
      • User Groups Claim
      • Function Role Mapping Claim
  • Required information about the client
    • Defining the client in Argus
    • Updating an OAuth2 Client
  • Configuring your Client
• External Identity Provider Integration Guide
  • Understanding Argus OpenID Provider integration
  • Defining the OpenID Client in your provider
  • Sending information to mnemonic to set up the provider configuration
  • Setting up Argus to work with an external OpenID Provider - Implicit Flow
    • Defining new OpenID Provider
  • Setting up Argus to work with an external OpenID Provider - Authorization Code Flow
    • Defining new OpenID Provider
  • Automatic User mapping
    • Requirements
    • Mapping groups
  • Tested provider settings
    • ADFS 2016 Implicit Flow
    • Azure AD
    • Cognito
  • Setting up OpenID Connect SSO with Azure AD
    • Instructions
    • User mapping
    • Authorization

Authenticating into Argus using an external OpenID provider

Argus supports authenticating users using an external OpenID Identify Provider, such as ADFS or Azure AD.

Please see External Identity Provider Integration Guide for details

Using Argus to authenticate/authorize access to your application

Argus can act as an OpenID / OAuth2 provider for external applications.

Please see Argus Identity Provider Integration Guide for details.