Authentication

All clients need to be authenticated to be able to access Optimization Server. It includes the web console, and the client applications that need to call the REST API. Default users are provided, depending on the configured authentication mode.

Optimization Server support two kind of authentications:

• Keycloak: The default authentication mecanism, it can be connected to external systems like LDAP or support 2FA for example.

• API Keys: A simpler authentication mecanism dedicated for machine to machine communication with external systems like a cron job or reporting system etc.