Geneos Authentication

generated: '2026-09-12'
method: searched
source: >-
  https://docs.itrsgroup.com/docs/geneos/current/processing/monitoring-and-alerts/geneos_commands_tr/index.html#user-authentication
docs:
  - >-
    https://docs.itrsgroup.com/docs/geneos/current/processing/monitoring-and-alerts/geneos_commands_tr/index.html#user-authentication
  - https://docs.itrsgroup.com/docs/geneos/current/collection/rest-api/index.html#plugin-configuration
  - https://docs.itrsgroup.com/docs/geneos/current/collection/xml-rpc-api/index.html
specification: API Commons Authentication
specificationVersion: '0.1'
provider: Geneos
providerId: geneos
note: >-
  derive-authentication.py produced nothing for this provider because the one
  published OpenAPI declares no securitySchemes at all. Everything below was
  read from ITRS Group's own documentation. Geneos is customer-deployed, so
  every authentication decision here is a deployment choice the customer makes,
  not a property of a hosted service — and in two of the three surfaces the
  default is no authentication.
summary:
  oauth2: false
  openid_connect: false
  api_keys: false
  http_basic: true
  bearer_token: true
  mutual_tls: true
  sso: true
  unauthenticated_default: true
surfaces:
  - api: geneos:gateway-rest
    name: Geneos Gateway REST Command Service
    enabled_by_default: false
    schemes:
      - id: gatewayBasic
        type: http
        scheme: basic
        description: >-
          "For password-based authentication, each REST command must be
          accompanied by a username and password, using HTTP basic access
          authentication." Credentials are users configured with passwords in the
          Gateway setup. ITRS warns in the same section that the header is
          base64-encoded but neither encrypted nor hashed, and recommends
          restricting the REST service to secure connections when authentication
          is enabled.
        evidence: >-
          https://docs.itrsgroup.com/docs/geneos/current/processing/monitoring-and-alerts/geneos_commands_tr/index.html#user-authentication
      - id: gatewaySsoBearer
        type: http
        scheme: bearer
        description: >-
          An SSO access token supplied as `Authorization: Bearer <token>`.
          Obtained from `GET /rest/authorize`, which redirects the HTTP client to
          the configured SSO Agent; if the SSO provider is ITRS Analytics a
          different token flow applies. Tokens expire and a new one must then be
          obtained. The Gateway refuses SSO-token connections unless the SSO
          Agent setting is present.
        token_endpoint: '{gatewayHost}:{restPort}/rest/authorize'
        evidence: >-
          https://docs.itrsgroup.com/docs/geneos/current/processing/monitoring-and-alerts/geneos_commands_tr/index.html#user-authentication
    not_supported:
      - >-
        System logins. "System logins are not supported, since system credentials
        are checked by the user interface client (e.g. Active Console), which is
        not involved in the REST API."
    authorization:
      model: per-command, per-target permissions
      description: >-
        403 is returned both for invalid credentials and for valid credentials
        without permission to run the requested command on the requested target.
        /rest/commands/available and /rest/xpaths/commandTargets filter their
        results by the caller's permissions; /rest/commands/all and
        /rest/xpaths/match deliberately do not.
    transport:
      https_supported: true
      https_enforceable: true
      setting: commands > restService > allowOnInsecureComms
      description: >-
        The REST service can be configured to run only on secure connections. A
        request made on the insecure port while the service is secure returns 404.
  - api: geneos:netprobe-rest-api
    name: Geneos Netprobe REST API
    enabled_by_default: true
    schemes:
      - id: netprobeMutualTLS
        type: mutualTLS
        optional: true
        description: >-
          The plug-in can require clients to present a valid certificate by
          enabling "Verify client certificate" and supplying a "Client CA
          certificate" path; if the path is empty the plug-in falls back to the
          Netprobe's -ssl-certificate-chain file and logs a warning. HTTPS
          requires starting the Netprobe with -secure, -ssl-certificate and
          -ssl-certificate-key.
        evidence: https://docs.itrsgroup.com/docs/geneos/current/collection/rest-api/index.html#plugin-configuration
    gap: >-
      The published OpenAPI declares no securitySchemes and no security
      requirement, so a client generated from the contract will send
      unauthenticated requests. With mutual TLS not configured, anything that can
      reach port 7136 can create, update and delete dataviews and rows.
  - api: geneos:xml-rpc
    name: Geneos XML-RPC Instrumentation API
    enabled_by_default: true
    schemes: []
    description: >-
      "XML-RPC traffic is neither encrypted or authenticated." ITRS documents
      IPSec as the suggested mitigation. Access control is a host allow-list:
      TRUSTED_API_HOSTS, set as an environment variable or in the managed entity
      descriptor, is a comma-separated list of trusted hosts/IPs; calls from any
      other host return HOST_NOT_TRUSTED immediately and the first such call from
      each host is written to the Netprobe log. If the Netprobe runs in secure
      mode the XML-RPC client must use HTTPS as the transport.
    evidence: https://docs.itrsgroup.com/docs/geneos/current/collection/xml-rpc-api/index.html
scopes:
  published: false
  note: >-
    No OAuth 2.0 flow and therefore no scope surface. scopes/ is deliberately not
    written for this provider — permissions are Gateway user permissions on
    commands and targets, not OAuth scopes.