The ConfigFile authentication uses identity credentials of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) account provided through a configuration file for authentication. This authentication method is based on the profile selected in the configuration file.

You can create a configuration file in the following format:

[<profile name>]
user=<user ocid>
fingerprint=<fingerprint>
tenancy=<tenancy ocid>
region=<region>
key_file=<private key file location>

You require the user OCID, fingerprint, and tenancy OCID information from the OCI account for the configuration file.

For more information about the steps to extract the identity credentials from the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console, see the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure documentation.

By default, the OCI configuration file is located at

~/.oci/config

on the Secure Agent machine. The

~/.oci/config

file can contain several profiles. The default profile name is

DEFAULT

. You can change the default profile name to any new profile names based on the profiles that you add to the

~/.oci/config

file. The

~/.oci/config

file cannot contain two profiles with the same name.

The simple authentication uses API keys for authentication. You can provide the authentication details in the

Oracle Cloud Object Storage

connection. You need to place the private key file in the Secure Agent machine.

You require the user OCID, fingerprint, and tenancy OCID information from the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure account to create an

Oracle Cloud Object Storage

connection.

For more information about the steps to extract the identity credentials from the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console, see the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure documentation.