Manually creating a connection

This section describes the procedure used by the wizard to enable string authentication using IBM® Verify APIs. The procedure involves steps on both IBM Verify and Verify Identity Access.

In this process an additional parameter <subscription shortname> is used. <subscription shortname> is derived from <subscription hostname> by taking the first subdomain.

subscription hostname subscription shortname
mysubscription.ice.ibmcloud.com mysubscription
jkenterprises.ibmcloudsecurity.com jkenterprises
The following topics are procedures that are performed on IBM Verify:
  • Create an API Client
  • Create an authenticators client
The following topics are procedures that are performed on Verify Identity Access:
  • Create an IBM Verify server connection
  • Create an IBM Verify Authentication authentication mechanism/policy.