# Use mender with Cumulocity fleet management

**URL:** <https://hub.mender.io/t/use-mender-with-cumulocity-fleet-management/3380>\
**Category:** General Discussions\
**Tags:** cumulocity\
**Created:** [March 16, 2021, 4:28pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/use-mender-with-cumulocity-fleet-management/3380 "2021-03-16T16:28:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![sensslen](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/hub.mender.io/sensslen/32/245_2.png) [@sensslen](https://hub.mender.io/u/sensslen)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2021, 4:28pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/use-mender-with-cumulocity-fleet-management/3380/1 "2021-03-16T16:28:04Z")

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Hi everyone,

our management decided that we need to use Cumulocity. We are looking for ways to connect cumulocity and mender (which is our goto solution for secure Operating system updates).

If I am correct Cumulocity requires all communication to use BasicAuth. Unfortunately I did not find a way to tell mender client to authenticate when using it standalone and providing it an url to download artifacts.

Tanks for any insight!

Regards, Simon

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**Author:** ![oleorhagen](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/hub.mender.io/oleorhagen/32/297_2.png) [@oleorhagen](https://hub.mender.io/u/oleorhagen)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2021, 3:03pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/use-mender-with-cumulocity-fleet-management/3380/2 "2021-03-18T15:03:23Z")

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Hi @sensslen the Mender client currently does not have any custom authentication solution set up for standalone mode.

This could be a pretty straight forward addition to the client though, if you are willing to look at the [source](https://github.com/mendersoftware/mender).

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**Author:** ![sensslen](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/hub.mender.io/sensslen/32/245_2.png) [@sensslen](https://hub.mender.io/u/sensslen)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 9:44am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/use-mender-with-cumulocity-fleet-management/3380/3 "2021-03-22T09:44:27Z")

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@oleorhagen Thanks for your comment - I’ll see whether I can get my head around the go language…

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**Author:** ![oleorhagen](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/hub.mender.io/oleorhagen/32/297_2.png) [@oleorhagen](https://hub.mender.io/u/oleorhagen)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 10:39am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/use-mender-with-cumulocity-fleet-management/3380/4 "2021-03-22T10:39:29Z")

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Best of luck 🙂

Golang should not be the worst language to pick up if you’re familar with the C-family previously.