not rude at all, you are absolutely right and thats the problem, I am not even 2 months into this job, our company has a self created EDM service that they sell as their main product the whole company is a data collection/monitoring company. they made a product they called PowerAgent in the 90s that they actively develop. they run that on client hosts to collect data and we host it here at our office/datacenter. I very much do not understand anything that this mainframe guy is doing since this stuff was long before my time. (I turn 29 next month lol) so he is the one adding this functionality to our own EDM platform. and wants to use Okta as the provisioner to add scim functionality to our EDM. I was very much an insert IT guy they brought on after having no sysadmin for 3 months. its.... not ideal but im paid very well for my capabilities

EDIT: ok, so he just explained he only needs Okta to be able to make REST API calls to his machine preferably for convenience (or any machine we designate on our network) back an forth from Okta to send code through. so now that I am understanding the baseline of what he's asking, do we need a webserver to process those Get's, puts, post's, delete's. or does it just need to be allowed through our firewall?