One Identity Manager has account definitions for automatically allocating user accounts to employees. You can create account definitions for every target system. If an employee does not yet have a user account in a target system, a new user account is created. This is done by assigning account definitions to an employee.

The data for the user accounts in the respective target system comes from the basic employee data. The employees must have a central user account. The assignment of the IT operating data to the employee’s user account is controlled through the primary assignment of the employee to a location, a department, a cost center, or a business role. Processing is done through templates. There are predefined templates for determining the data required for user accounts included in the default installation. You can customize templates as required.

Specify the manage level for an account definition for managing user accounts. The user account’s manage level specifies the extent of the employee’s properties that are inherited by the user account. This allows an employee to have several user accounts in one target system, for example:

• Default user account that inherits all properties from the employee.

• Administrative user account that is associated to an employee but should not inherit the properties from the employee.

For more detailed information about the principles of account definitions, manage levels, and determining the valid IT operating data, see the One Identity Manager Target System Base Module Administration Guide.

The following steps are required to implement an account definition:

• Creating account definitions

• Configuring manage levels

• Creating the formatting rules for IT operating data

• Collecting IT operating data

• Assigning account definitions to employees and target systems

Detailed information about this topic

• Creating Notes account definitions
• Editing Notes account definitions
• Main data for Notes account definitions
• Editing manage levels
• Creating manage levels
• Main data for manage levels
• Creating mapping rules for IT operating data
• Entering IT operating data
• Modify IT operating data
• Assigning Notes account definitions to employees
• Assigning Notes account definitions to target systems
• Deleting Notes account definitions