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Note

For more details, see the Communication, Authentication and Authorization in CTC PDF.

Obtaining an access_token

Send a POST request to the token_endpoint with the following parameters in the request body:

• grant_type: password
• username: the user's username
• password: the user's password
• client_id: your client ID
• scope: the requested scopes, such as openid and profile

CTC-US

token_endpoint: https://accounts.calamp.com/oauth2/aus190umwbX0NIZv65d6/v1/token
client_id: 0oa63qnii6kCc10Ze5d7

CTC-EU

token_endpoint: https://accounts.calamp.co.uk/oauth2/aus9s1fokCpJoN3jB416/v1/token
client_id: 0oa6snpq4eh3BdzxI417

Example:

curl -X POST https://accounts.calamp.com/oauth2/aus190umwbX0NIZv65d6/v1/token \
  -d grant_type=password \
  -d username=your-username \
  -d password=your-password \
  -d client_id=0oa63qnii612345 \
  -d scope=openid

The Authorization Server will respond with an access_token in the response body.

{
    "token_type": "Bearer",
    "expires_in": 86400,
    "access_token": "eyJraWQiOiJ0VD...mcaYWQ",
    "scope": "openid",
    "id_token": "eyJraWQiOiJ...wpdZg"
}

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Note

The access_token expires in 24 hours at which time a new access_token needs to be obtained via the authentication process described.