You can apply the Policy Object by using the Enforce Policy page in the New Provisioning Policy Object Wizard, or you can complete the wizard and then use the Enforce Policy command on the domain, OU, or Managed Unit where you want to apply the policy.
For more information on how to apply a Policy Object, see Applying Policy Objects and Managing policy scope.
Policies in this category are intended to automatically generate and send e-mail notifications upon deprovisioning requests. The primary purpose of such a policy is to notify designated persons about a request to deprovision a given object so as to take additional deprovisioning-related actions on that object, if necessary. When configuring a policy in this category, you can specify a list of notification recipients, and customize the subject and body of the notification message.
When processing a deprovisioning request, Active Roles uses this policy to determine whether anyone must be notified of the deprovisioning operation that is requested. Then, it generates a notification message and sends it to the recipients, if any specified in the policy configuration.
When a deprovisioning operation is requested, Active Roles issues a notification message regardless of operation results. Hence, a notification message cannot be considered as an indication of success or failure of the operation. Rather, it only indicates that deprovisioning has been requested. If you need to inform anybody of deprovisioning results, you should use a policy of the Report Distribution category.
Notification performs on a per-object basis: Each notification message contains information about a request to deprovision one object. When deprovisioning multiple objects, Active Roles sends multiple notification messages, one message per object.
Active Roles sends notification messages via an SMTP server. The policy configuration specifies the outbound SMTP server by using Active Roles email settings that include the name of the SMTP server and information required to connect to the SMTP server.
To configure a Notification Distribution policy, select Notification Distribution on the Policy to Configure page in the New Deprovisioning Policy Object Wizard or in the Add Deprovisioning Policy Wizard. Then, click Next to display the Notification Recipients and Message page.
On the Notification Recipients and Message page, you can set up a list of notification recipients, and make any necessary changes to the message subject and body.
To specify notification recipients, click the button next to the Notification recipients box, and then type one or more email addresses. Use a semicolon to separate the addresses of the recipients.
If you need to modify the notification message, type in the Message subject or Message body box. You can use macros to enter information about the object being deprovisioned, to make the message more meaningful to the recipients.
Macros have the same syntax and semantics as values for policy conditions in Property Generation and Validation policies: An attribute’s LDAP display name enclosed in angle brackets (<>) and prefixed with the percent character (%) represents the value of that attribute. For instance, before sending a message, Active Roles replaces %<name> with the name of the object to deprovision.
When you are done, click Next to display the Outgoing Mail Server page.
On the Outgoing Mail Server page, you can select the email configuration you want the policy to use, and view or modify email settings in the selected configuration.
First, from the Outgoing mail server (SMTP) list, select the email configuration you want the policy to use.
NOTE: By default, the Outgoing mail server (SMTP) list includes a single entry. You can add more entries to the list using the Active Roles Console. In the Console tree, expand Configuration/Server Configuration, right-click Mail Configuration, select New > Mail Configuration, and then follow the instructions in the wizard.
Each email configuration specifies an SMTP server and provides information required to connect to that server. You can view and modify configuration parameters by clicking Settings.