Token issuer manager for management and dynamic changing of token issuers

Abstract

In general, certain embodiments described herein relate to a method for managing token issuers for a system. One or more embodiments are directed to changing the token issuer after a factory configuration, a disaster situation, and the current token issuer being compromised or down. The method for managing token issuers includes restoring a system on to a virtual machine environment based on a backup image of the system, identifying available token issuers on the virtual machine environment, determining that a currently configured token issuer on the system is not one of the available token issuers, and selecting, in response to the determining, a token issuer of the available token issuers. Finally, the method includes updating, by a token issuer manager executing on the system, a common IAM service of the system to use the token issuer to grant access to an application executing on the system.