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Node Authentication

Authentication mean that identify users and provision of access of rights and contents depending on their ID.Node authentication is the technique used to ensure that the managing server and data collectors communicate with each other in a secure manner.Authentication can be categorized as follows 1.Session based 2.Token based 3.Password less What is session based authentication? User credentials such as user name or email and password are compared with the database where this data was stored.If they match, a session is initialized for the user with the fetched ID.

API

API stands for Application Programming interface.API is an interface used by programs to interact with application,which mean that API allow the applications  to communicate with each other. Really API is not a database or server,API is the code that give the access point for the server.