User Authorization Enhancements
We’ve changed the default OAuth provider supplied with the product.
Before
Each product site included its own OAuth Authorization Server (STS) which was used by default for logging into the Web Client and for generating tokens for OData API consumers.
What changed?
The product is delivered with the Smart API Manager (SAM) software as the default OAuth provider. This means that any new sites created use SAM as the OAuth token provider, most noticeably while logging into the Web Client. Existing sites continue to use the STS. One key difference you'll notice is that there was one STS instance for each SmartPlant Foundation or SDx site. Now, with SAM, there is now only one shared instance that all sites use.
Server Manager has been modified to include automatic installation and configuration for SAM where required and to allow easy migration of any existing sites, which are still using the STS for OAuth.
This change does not impact existing sites which use a 3rd party OAuth provider such
as Okta. The option to configure 3rd party OAuth authorization will continue to be
available in Server Manager.