

However, if you do have such an agreement in place you may wish to consult with the service owners at your institution prior to creating this application.) Note: For the purposes of OAuth2 your institution does not need to have to have any sort of pre-existing or enterprise agreement with the storage service in order to create this application.

A Kumo administrator will create a Kumo application on the storage service's website.Specific instructions for each supported storage service are provider later in this document, but the general process is illustrated below. In order to make a storage service available to your users a bit of configuration must be performed at both the storage service's site and in your Kumo admin portal.

The OAuth2 specification and a helpful primer are available if you'd like to learn more. OAuth2 is an authorization framework that enables resource owners (students, faculty, staff) to delegate access to their resources (cloud-based files) to 3rd party services (Kumo) without having to share their credentials. This document describes how to configure your Kumo tenant to work with supported cloud storage services.
