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Verify authentication

To extract Oracle Cloud Object Storage metadata, you need to perform Simple or ConfigFile Authentication.
Simple Authentication is an API key-based authentication. You provide the authentication details in the Oracle Cloud Object Storage connection. You must place the private key file in the Secure Agent machine.
You need the following information to perform Simple Authentication:
ConfigFile authentication is based on the profile selected in a configuration file. For example:
[<profile name>]
user=<user ocid>
fingerprint=<fingerprint>
tenancy=<tenancy ocid>
region=<region>
key_file=<private key file location>
By default, the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure CLI configuration file is located at ~/.oci/config. The ~/.oci/config file can contain multiple profiles. The default profile name is DEFAULT. You can change the default profile name to a new profile name based on the profiles that you add to the ~/.oci/config file. The ~/.oci/config file cannot contain two profiles with the same name.
You need the following information to perform ConfigFile Authentication: