One Identity Manager allows administration of objects, such as employees, groups, and organizational units that are managed in an LDAP directory. The LDAP mapping in One Identity Manager should be seen as a suggestion, and seldom corresponds to the property mapping in a custom LDAP directory. Whether, or how, the available properties will be used depends on the respective LDAP schema in use, and must be custom configured.
The default One Identity Manager installation concentrates on employee administration and their user accounts, user groups, and LDAP directory organizational units. The One Identity Manager data model is designed to manage administration of LDAP directory computers and servers.
One Identity Manager supplies templates for synchronization with several server systems. However, the synchronization connection has to be custom configured in any case.
Company employees are provided with the necessary user accounts in One Identity Manager. Different mechanisms can be used to link employees to their user accounts. These user accounts can also be managed separately from employees and therefore administrative user accounts can be set up. In order to provide the required permissions, LDAP groups are managed in One Identity Manager. In One Identity Manager, you can also manage organizational units in a hierarchical structure. Organizational units (branches or departments) are used to logically organize the objects in an LDAP directory such as user accounts and groups and thus make administration easier.
In One Identity Manager, the following servers play a role in managing LDAP:
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LDAP server
The LDAP server with the LDAP directory. This server is a selected live server with a good network connection to the synchronization server. The synchronization server connects to this server in order to access the LDAP objects.
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Synchronization server
Synchronization server for synchronizing One Identity Manager data with LDAP. The One Identity Manager Service with the LDAP connector is installed on this server. The synchronization server connects to the LDAP server.
The LDAP connector is used for synchronization and provisioning LDAP. The LDAP connector communicates directly with an LDAP server.
Figure 1: Architecture for synchronization
The following users are used for setting up and administration of LDAP.
Table 1: Users
| Target system administrators |
Target system administrators must be assigned to the Target systems | Administrators application role.
Users with this application role:
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Administer application roles for individual target system types.
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Specify the target system manager.
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Set up other application roles for target system managers if required.
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Specify which application roles for target system managers are mutually exclusive.
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Authorize other employees to be target system administrators.
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Do not assume any administrative tasks within the target system. |
| Target system managers |
Target system managers must be assigned to the Target systems | LDAP or a child application role.
Users with this application role:
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Assume administrative tasks for the target system.
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Create, change, or delete target system objects like user accounts or groups.
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Edit password policies for the target system.
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Prepare groups to add to the IT Shop.
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Can add employees who have an other identity than the Primary identity.
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Configure synchronization in the Synchronization Editor and define the mapping for comparing target systems and One Identity Manager.
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Edit the synchronization's target system types and outstanding objects.
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Authorize other employees within their area of responsibility as target system managers and create child application roles if required. |
| One Identity Manager administrators |
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Create customized permissions groups for application roles for role-based login to administration tools in the Designer as required.
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Create system users and permissions groups for non role-based login to administration tools in the Designer as required.
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Enable or disable additional configuration parameters in the Designer as required.
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Create custom processes in the Designer as required.
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Create and configure schedules as required.
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Create and configure password policies as required. |
| Administrators for the IT Shop |
Administrators must be assigned to the Request & Fulfillment | IT Shop | Administrators application role.
Users with this application role:
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| Administrators for organizations |
Administrators must be assigned to the Identity Management | Organizations | Administrators application role.
Users with this application role:
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| Business roles administrators |
Administrators must be assigned to the Identity Management | Business roles | Administrators application role.
Users with this application role:
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One Identity Manager supports synchronization of LDAP version 3 confirm directory servers.
NOTE:
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The LDAP connector requires the directory server to be RFC conform. Specifically, to conform to the RFC 4514 standard (String Representation of Distinguished Names) and RFC 4512 (Directory Information Models).
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On certain LDAP systems, write operations on entries can cause errors if they are not-RFC compliance.
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The connected LDAP server should manage the referential integrity of entries itself. For example, the Refint plugin from OpenLDAP (Overlays: Referential Integrity) If the server does not support this mechanism or it is not enabled, deleting or renaming can result in orphaned entries of referenced properties (for example Member).
The One Identity Manager is responsible for synchronizing data between the One Identity Manager Service database and the LDAP directory.
This sections explains how to:
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Set up synchronization to import initial data from LDAP domains to the One Identity Manager database.
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Adjust a synchronization configuration, for example, to synchronize different LDAP domains with the same synchronization project.
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Start and deactivate the synchronization.
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Evaluate the synchronization results.
TIP: Before you set up synchronization with an LDAP domain, familiarize yourself with the Synchronization Editor. For detailed information about this tool, see the One Identity Manager Target System Synchronization Reference Guide.
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