1.0 Getting Started

In the OAuth authorization flows, the following are the OAuth 2 defined participants:

  • Resource Owner: a user who owns the resource.

  • Resource Server: a server that provides APIs to access user data and perform user functions.

  • Authorization Server: a server that protects the resource server APIs.

    Here, the authorization server is NetIQ Access Manager.

  • Client: an application that requires to access the protected data on the resource server.

The simplified interaction between these participants is illustrated in the following figure: