The One Identity Manager Service must be installed on the synchronization server with the SCIM connector. The synchronization server must be declared as a Job server in One Identity Manager.
Table 3: Properties of the Job server
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Server function |
SCIM connector |
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Machine role |
Server | Job server | SCIM |
NOTE: If several target system environments of the same type are synchronized under the same synchronization server, it is recommended that you set up a Job server for each target system for performance reasons. This avoids unnecessary swapping of connections to target systems because a Job server only has to process tasks of the same type (re-use of existing connections).
Use the One Identity Manager Service to install the Server Installer. The program runs the following steps:
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Sets up a Job server.
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Specifies machine roles and server function for the Job server.
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Remotely installs One Identity Manager Service components corresponding to the machine roles.
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Configures the One Identity Manager Service.
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Starts the One Identity Manager Service.
NOTE: The program performs a remote installation of the One Identity Manager Service. Local installation of the service is not possible with this program.
To remotely install the One Identity Manager Service, you must have an administrative workstation on which the One Identity Manager components are installed. For detailed information about installing a workstation, see the One Identity Manager Installation Guide.
NOTE: To generate processes for the Job server, you need the provider, connection parameters, and the authentication data. By default, this information is determined from the database connection data. If the Job server runs through an application server, you must configure extra connection data in the Designer. For detailed information about setting up Job servers, see the One Identity Manager Configuration Guide.
To remotely install and configure One Identity Manager Service on a server
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Start the Server Installer program on your administrative workstation.
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On the Database connection page, enter the valid connection credentials for the One Identity Manager database.
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On the Server properties page, specify the server on which you want to install the One Identity Manager Service.
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Select a Job server from the Server menu.
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To create a new Job server, click Add.
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Enter the following data for the Job server.
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Server: Name of the Job server.
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Queue: Name of the queue to handle the process steps. Each Job server within the network must have a unique queue identifier. The process steps are requested by the Job queue using this exact queue name. The queue identifier is entered in the One Identity Manager Service configuration file.
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Full server name: Full server name in accordance with DNS syntax.
Syntax:
<Name of servers>.<Fully qualified domain name>
NOTE: You can use the Extended option to make changes to other properties for the Job server. You can also edit the properties later with the Designer.
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On the Machine roles page, select SCIM.
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On the Server functions page, select SCIM connector.
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On the Service Settings page, enter the connection data and check the One Identity Manager Service configuration.
NOTE: The initial service configuration is predefined. If further changes need to be made to the configuration, you can do this later with the Designer. For detailed information about configuring the service, see the One Identity Manager Configuration Guide.
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To configure remote installations, click Next.
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Confirm the security prompt with Yes.
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On the Select installation source page, select the directory with the install files. Change the directory if necessary.
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If the database is encrypted, on the Select private key file page, select the file with the private key.
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On the Service access page, enter the service's installation data.
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Computer: Enter the name or IP address of the server that the service is installed and started on.
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Service account: Enter the details of the user account that the One Identity Manager Service is running under. Enter the user account, the user account's password and password confirmation.
The service is installed using the user account with which you are logged in to the administrative workstation. If you want to use another user account for installing the service, you can enter it in the advanced options. You can also change the One Identity Manager Service details, such as the installation directory, name, display name, and the One Identity Manager Service description, using the advanced options.
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Click Next to start installing the service.
Installation of the service occurs automatically and may take some time.
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Click Finish on the last page of the Server Installer.
NOTE: In a default installation, the service is entered in the server’s service management with the name One Identity Manager Service.
Use the Synchronization Editor to set up synchronization between the One Identity Manager database and cloud application. The following describes the steps for initial configuration of a synchronization project. For more information, see the One Identity Manager Target System Synchronization Reference Guide.
After the initial configuration, you can customize and configure workflows within the synchronization project. Use the workflow wizard in the Synchronization Editor for this. The Synchronization Editor also provides different configuration options for a synchronization project.
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Have the following information available for setting up a synchronization project.
NOTE: Be aware of case sensitive parts of the URL during configuration.
Table 4: Information required for setting up a synchronization project
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URL of the SCIM server |
URL used to connect to the server that deploys the SCIM interface. The URL must contain the transmission protocol in use. |
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Port |
Port for accessing the cloud application. |
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URI service |
URL for reaching the SCIM service. |
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Authentication endpoint or URL |
URL available for authenticating. If authentication of another server or another root URL is used for authentication, the full URL must be entered here. |
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Authentication type |
Permitted type of authentication for logging into the cloud application. |
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User account and password |
User name and password for logging into the cloud application with the Basic authentication, OAuth authentication, and Negotiated authentication authentication types. |
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Client secret |
Security token for logging into the cloud application with the OAuth authentication authentication type. |
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Application/Client ID |
The application/client ID used to register the cloud application with the security token service. It is required for registering with the OAuth authentication authentication type. |
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Authentication token |
Security token for logging into the cloud application with the Bearer authentication authentication type. |
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SCIM endpoint |
Endpoint URIs or URLs for accessing the cloud application's schema, resource, and service provider data. |
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SCIM server's time zone |
Time zone on which the SCIM provider bases its time data. |
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Synchronization server |
All One Identity Manager Service actions are run against the target system environment on the synchronization server. Data entries required for synchronization and administration with the One Identity Manager database are processed by the synchronization server.
The One Identity Manager Service must be installed on the synchronization server with the SCIM connector.
The synchronization server must be declared as a Job server in One Identity Manager. Use the following properties when you set up the Job server.
For more information, see System requirements for the SCIM synchronization server. |
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One Identity Manager database connection data |
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Database server
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Database name
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SQL Server login and password
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Specifies whether integrated Windows authentication is used
Use of the integrated Windows authentication is not recommended. If you decide to use it anyway, ensure that your environment supports Windows authentication. |
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Remote connection server |
To configure synchronization with a target system, One Identity Manager must load the data from the target system. One Identity Manager communicates directly with the target system to do this. Sometimes direct access from the workstation, on which the Synchronization Editor is installed, is not possible. For example, because of the firewall configuration or the workstation does not fulfill the necessary hardware and software requirements. If direct access is not possible from the workstation, you can set up a remote connection.
The remote connection server and the workstation must be in the same Active Directory domain.
Remote connection server configuration:
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One Identity Manager Service is started
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RemoteConnectPlugin is installed
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SCIM connector is installed
The remote connection server must be declared as a Job server in One Identity Manager. The Job server name is required.
For more detailed information about setting up a remote connection, see the One Identity Manager Target System Synchronization Reference Guide. |
NOTE: The following sequence describes how to configure a synchronization project if the Synchronization Editor is both:
If you run the project wizard in expert mode or directly from the Synchronization Editor, additional configuration settings can be made. Follow the project wizard instructions through these steps.
NOTE: Just one synchronization project can be created per target system and default project template used.
To set up initial synchronization project for a cloud application
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Start the Launchpad and log in on the One Identity Manager database.
NOTE: If synchronization is run by an application server, connect the database through the application server.
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Select the Target system type SCIM interface entry and click Start.
This starts the Synchronization Editor's project wizard.
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On the System access page, specify how One Identity Manager can access the target system.
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If access is possible from the workstation on which you started the Synchronization Editor, do not change any settings.
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If access is not possible from the workstation on which you started the Synchronization Editor, you can set up a remote connection.
Enable the Connect using remote connection server option and select the server to be used for the connection under Job server.
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On the Configuration data page, enter the connection parameters required by the SCIM connector to login to the cloud application.
Table 5: Server parameter
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Server URL |
URL for reaching the server. Enter the transfer protocol to use. |
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Port |
Port for accessing the cloud application. This field can be left empty if default ports are used (HTTP:80, HTTPS:443). |
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URI service |
URL for reaching the SCIM service. Only the part of the URL used in common by all endpoints to be called, is required. The SCIM connector take the URL from the server URL, the port and URI together.
Example: If the complete URL is https://identities.example.net:8080/scim/v2 then enter scim/v2 as the URI. |
Table 6: Authentication type
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Basic authentication |
Authentication with the user name and password. |
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OAuth authentifcation |
Authentication with the OAuth protocol 2.0. |
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Negotiated authentication (NTLM/Kerberos) |
Authentication using Windows authentication methods such as NTLM or Kerberos |
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Use client certificate |
Authentication using a client certificate. |
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Bearer authentication |
Authentication using an existing bearer token. |
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Authentication endpoint or URL |
URL available for authenticating. Only the part of the URL added to the common part, is required to reach the authentication endpoints. If authentication of another server or another root URL is used for authentication, the full URL must be entered here.
Example: If the full URI is https://identities.example.net:8080/scim/v2/auth/token enter auth/token here. If the base URL or the server is different to the resource URL, enter the full URL, for example https://authserver.example.net/token.
This URL is only used for testing the connection in all authentication modes apart from OAuth authentication. |
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On the Basic authentication page, enter the user name and password for the Basic Authentication authentication type.
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On the OAuth authentication page, enter the security token for the OAuth authentication authentication type and select the access type.
Table 7: OAuth authentication properties
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Client secret |
Security token
If the security token is not known, enter the user name and password. |
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User account and password |
User name and password for logging into the cloud application if the security token is not known. |
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Application/Client ID |
The application/client ID used to register the cloud application with the security token service. |
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Grant type |
Grant type for logging in to the cloud application with the OAuth authentication authentication type. Enable Client credentials or Password credentials. |
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Scope |
Scope parameter valid for target system login. If several parameter apply, separate them with spaces.
Whether a scope is required for logging in and which scope parameters are valid, depends on the service provider. |
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On the Negotiated authentication page, enter the user name and password for the Negotiated authentication (NTLM/Kerberos) authentication type.
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On the Client certificate page, select the certificate you want to use. Certificates can imported into the local computer's certificate store from *.CER or *.PFX files.
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On the Bearer authentication page, enter the bearer token calculated by the target system.
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On Verify connection settings page, you can test the captured connection data. Click Test.
One Identity Manager tries to connect to the cloud application.
TIP: One Identity Manager saves the test result. When you reopen the page and the connection data has not changed, the result of the test is displayed. You do not have to run the connection test again if it was successful.
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On the Endpoint configuration page, enter the URIs for the SCIM end points. The SCIM default is used there is no URI.
Table 8: Endpoint configuration
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Schema |
Endpoint for accessing the cloud application's schema information. |
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Resources |
End point for accessing the cloud application's resource information, such as groups or user accounts. |
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Supported service options |
Endpoint for accessing the cloud application's service provider information. |
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To test the connection at the specified end points, click Test.
TIP: One Identity Manager saves the test result. If you reopen the page and the end point configuration has not changed, the save test result is displayed.
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On the Local cache page, you can configure additional setting for optimizing synchronization performance.
Table 9: Performance optimization settings
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Use local cache |
Specifies whether the SCIM connector's local cache is used.
Local cache is used to speed up synchronization. Access to the cloud application is minimized during full synchronization. The option is ignored during provisioning.
This option is set by default
It does not make sense to use the cache during synchronization with revision filtering. If the target system supports revision filtering, disable the option after initial synchronization. |
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Max. number of parallel queries |
Number of target system data queries that can be carried out at simultaneously. Enter a value between 1 and 32. |
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Use HTTP Keep-Alive |
Specifies whether HTTP connections are kept open. If the option is not set, connections are closed immediately and cannot be used for further queries. |
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On the SCIM server time zone page, enter the time on which the SCIM provider bases its time data.
If the SCIM provider supplies time and date values that do not contain any time zone information the time zone given here is used.
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On the Target product selection page, you can customize how the SCIM connector behaves with the singularities of special target products, for example HTTP request formats.
Table 10: Target products
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SCIM Core 2.0 |
Product for synchronizing a standard SCIM environment. |
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One Identity Starling Connect |
Product for synchronizing a standard One Identity Starling Connect environment. |
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On the Display name page, enter a unique display name for the cloud application.
You can use display names to differentiate between the cloud application in One Identity Manager tools. Display names cannot be changed later.
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On the last page of the system connection wizard you can save the connection data locally and finish the system connection configuration.
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On the One Identity Manager Connection tab, test the data for connecting to the One Identity Manager database. The data is loaded from the connected database. Reenter the password.
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If you use an unencrypted One Identity Manager database and have not yet saved any synchronization projects to the database, you need to enter all connection data again.
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This page is not shown if a synchronization project already exists.
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The wizard loads the target system schema. This may take a few minutes depending on the type of target system access and the size of the target system.
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On the Select project template page, select a project template to use for setting up the synchronization configuration.
Table 11: Standard project templates
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SCIM synchronization |
Use this project template for initial configuration of the synchronization project for synchronizing a System for Cross-domain Identity Management. |
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Synchronizing a One Identity Starling Connect environment |
Use this project template for initial configuration of the synchronization project for synchronizing SCIM using One Identity Starling Connect infrastructure. |
NOTE: A default project template ensures that all required information is added in One Identity Manager. This includes mappings, workflows, and the synchronization base object. If you do not use a default project template you must declare the synchronization base object in One Identity Manager yourself.Use a default project template for initially setting up the synchronization project. For custom implementations, you can extend the synchronization project with the Synchronization Editor.
- On the Restrict target system access page, specify how system access should work. You have the following options:
Table 12: Specify target system access
Read-only access to target system.
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Specifies that a synchronization workflow is only to be set up for the initial loading of the target system into the One Identity Manager database.
The synchronization workflow has the following characteristics:
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Read/write access to target system. Provisioning available. |
Specifies whether a provisioning workflow is set up in addition to the synchronization workflow for the initial loading of the target system.
The provisioning workflow displays the following characteristics:
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Synchronization is in the direction of the Target system.
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Processing methods are only defined in the synchronization steps for synchronization in the direction of the Target system.
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Synchronization steps are only created for such schema classes whose schema types have write access. |
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On the Synchronization server page, select the synchronization server to run the synchronization.
If the synchronization server is not declared as a Job server in the One Identity Manager database yet, you can add a new Job server.
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Click 
to add a new Job server.
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Enter a name for the Job server and the full server name conforming to DNS syntax.
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The synchronization server is declared as Job server for the target system in the One Identity Manager database.
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NOTE: After you save the synchronization project, ensure that this server is set up as a synchronization server.
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To close the project wizard, click Finish.
This creates and allocates a default schedule for regular synchronization. Enable the schedule for regular synchronization.
This sets up, saves and immediately activates the synchronization project.
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If enabled, a consistency check is carried out. If errors occur, a message appears. You can decide whether the synchronization project can remain activated or not.
Check the errors before you use the synchronization project. To do this, in the General view on the Synchronization Editor‘s start page, click Verify project.
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If you do not want the synchronization project to be activated immediately, disable the Activate and save the new synchronization project automatically option. In this case, save the synchronization project manually before closing the Synchronization Editor.
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The connection data for the target system is saved in a variable set and can be modified in the Synchronization Editor in the Configuration > Variables category.
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