Configuring Authentication Mode for P6 EPPM Web Services

To set your authentication mode:

Open the Primavera P6 Administrator.
In the Configurations drop-down list, select your configuration.
In the sidebar expandWeb Services, then expand Security and select Authentication.
On the Authentication page, select the methods you want to allow clients use for authentication. The default value is Username Token Profile. You can select multiple authentication modes.
Note If you select OWSM as the authentication mode for P6 EPPM Web Services, only OWSM authentication can be used. OWSM receives the authentication request and will perform the authentication instead of passing the authentication request to P6 EPPM Web Services.

The available authentication modes are:
- Username Token Profile - SOAP and REST: This mode defines how a web service client application can supply a user name and an optional password in the message request that the web service server can use to authenticate the requester's identity.
- SAML Token - SOAP: Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) defines an XML-based mechanism for exchanging messages that contain security information in the form of assertions.
- Cookies - SOAP: This option requires you to call the Authentication service Login operation to establish a session and obtain a cookie before you can use any other P6 web service.
- OWSM - SOAP: This option lets you use Oracle Web Services Manager to manage P6 EPPM Web Services security policies and to monitor authentication and authorization attempts.
- OAuth - SOAP and REST: This option uses a private key corresponding to a public certificate for generating user assertions and access tokens.
  Note
  - See the P6 EPPM Web Services Programming Guide for more information.
  - Changes to this setting require you to restart the P6 server.

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