3352445 - Integration Center: OAuth 2.0 to External System fails with "Unable to parse oauth token" / statusCode: 401

You have created OAuth Configurations for external system in Security Center to be used in your Integration Center job.

When executing the Integration Center job it is failing & you see the below errors in the Event Logs:

• Unable to parse oauth token response due to HTTP operation failed invoking https://example_oauth_token_url.com/token with statusCode: 401; 
     
• ServiceApplicationException: Failed due to - Failed to get access token due to Response from server https://example_oauth_token_url.com/token

The same OAuth credentials are working without issue & successfully authenticate against the external system when tested in an external REST client e.g. Google Postman

• SAP SuccessFactors SXM Suite 
  • Integration Center
  • Security Center
    • OAuth Configurations 

There is Special Characters being used in the in the client_secret

Please use a client_secret which does not contain special characters 

Reference: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-docs/issues/30467

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