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Operational Data

For certain operations, IdentityServer needs a persistence store to keep dynamically created state. This data is collectively called operational data, and includes:

  • Grants for authorization and device codes, reference and refresh tokens, and remembered user consent
  • Keys managing dynamically created signing keys
  • Server Side Sessions for storing authentication session data for interactive users server-side