Enabling client access

Zenoss Cloud provides tools for creating and managing the authentication keys required to gain access to Zenoss Cloud with client applications.

Client applications include:

• Streaming data clients, customized applications, or integrations that use the data receiver service to send entities, metric data points, or events to Zenoss Cloud.

• Customized integrations that use the user management service to create or update user accounts and groups.

• Customized applications or integrations that update or query the policy service, metric dictionary or any other Zenoss Cloud service supported by the Zenoss API.

• Customized applications or integrations that use the Collection Zone API to update a Collection Zone. (Zenoss Cloud collectors use a different authentication system.)

You create and manage authentication keys for the clients that you deploy. The tools for creating and managing keys, and the life cycles of the keys, differ by API:

• Authentication keys for Zenoss API clients
• Authentication keys for Collection Zone API clients