Anschlussmanager
Anschlussmanager is a German term used in IT and industry to denote a software component that orchestrates and manages connections between a system and external devices or services. It handles lifecycle management of connections, including provisioning, onboarding, authentication, authorization, parameter negotiation, session management, monitoring, and tear-down.
It supports discovery of new endpoints, credential storage (with secure secret management), and policy-driven connection rules.
In architecture, an Anschlussmanager can be a standalone microservice, part of an edge gateway, or a cloud-based
Use cases include IoT device onboarding to cloud platforms, linking external business services via APIs, connecting
Key challenges include scalability to thousands or millions of connections, ensuring low latency, robustness in intermittent