Authentication

This page contains the following sections:

HTTP Basic Authentication
Token authentication using a predefined key/value-pair
ArcGIS Server Token authentication

If there is a need to provide authentication credentials while monitoring a service, service.monitor supports several authentication methods.

HTTP Basic Authentication

Authentication happens via username and password. service.monitor will create the according HTTP Header for each of the monitoring requests.

In case of specifying an Esri Enterprise Geodatabase specifying credentials for accessing the database also happens via this option.

Token authentication using a predefined key/value-pair

This option is used if, for example, the service provider provides an API key for using a service. The service.monitor user can define the value of the key and the value himself.

Credentials will be appended to the request URL, i.e. http://server.com?<token-parameter-name>=<token>

ArcGIS Server Token authentication

Using the ArcGIS Server Token authentication, protected ArcGIS Server services can be monitored. service.monitor automatically determines the authentication endpoint of the service and retrieves an ArcGIS Token for use in the monitoring request.