Introduction

CIMA expanded as Comcast Identity Management Architecture, is responsible for managing identities with comcast. This architecture allows customer's to create an identity using which they can login into various customer facing portals.

When a customer logs in successfully on the portal using CIMA, an oauth token is generated. This token uniquely identifies the customer and it contains some contextual information too. This token is then used for authentication in API's.

When an API can be consumed using CIMA, it means the token generated by customer's login can be used to authenticate.

The Standard that is being used to authenticate API's are 'Authorization' header in the HTTP request with value 'Bearer '

How to generate CIMA token

CIMA token can be generated by manually logging into idm portal using the username and password.