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Identity Manager 8.1.4 - Identity Management Base Module Administration Guide

Basics for mapping company structures in One Identity Manager Managing departments, cost centers, and locations Working with dynamic roles Employee administration
One Identity Manager users for employee administration Basic data for employee master data Entering employee master data Employee's central user account Employee's central password Employee's default email address Mapping multiple employee identities Disabling and deleting employees Password policies for employees Limited access to One Identity Manager Assigning company resources to employees Displaying the origin of an employee's roles and entitlements Analyzing role memberships and employee assignments Additional tasks for managing employees Determining an employee’s language Determining an employee's working hours Employee reports
Managing devices and workdesks Managing resources Setting up extended properties Configuration parameters for managing departments, cost centers, and locations Effective configuration parameters for setting up employees Configuration parameters for managing devices and workdesks

Primary assignment

You make a primary assignment using a department, cost center, or location foreign key reference in employee, device, and workdesk objects. To do this, use the role fields on the employee, device, and workdesk master data forms. Primary assignment inheritance can be enabled through configuration parameters. Primary assignment is enabled by default for employee objects.

Figure 8: A primary assignment schema

NOTE: Changes to the configuration parameter result in the inheritance data being recalculated! That means: if the primary assignment is disabled at a later date, the inheritance data created in this way will be removed from the database.
Table 1: Configuration parameters for primary assignment

Configuration parameter

Effect when set

QER | Structures | Inherite | Employee

Employees can inherit through primary assignments.

QER | Structures | Inherite | Employee| GroupExclusion

Employees inherit assignments from their primary department (Person.UID_Department).

QER | Structures | Inherite | Employe | FromLocality

Employees inherit assignments from their primary location (Person.UID_Locality).

QER | Structures | Inherite | Employee| FromProfitCenter

Employees inherit assignments from their primary cost center (Person.UID_ProfitCenter).

QER | Structures | Inherite | Hardware

Devices can inherit through primary assignments.

QER | Structures | Inherite | Hardware | FromDepartment

Devices inherit assignments from their primary department (Hardware.UID_Department).

QER | Structures | Inherite | Hardware | FromLocality

Devices inherit assignments from their primary location (Hardware.UID_Locality).

QER | Structures | Inherite | Hardware | FromProfitCenter

Devices inherit assignments from their primary cost center (Hardware.UID_ProfitCenter).

QER | Structures | Inherite | Workdesk

Workdesks can inherit though primary assignment.

QER | Structures | Inherite | Workdesk | FromDepartment

Workdesks inherit assignments from their primary department (Workdesk.UID_Department).

QER | Structures | Inherite | Workdesk | FromLocality

Workdesks inherit assignments from their primary location (Workdesk.UID_Locality).

QER | Structures | Inherite | Workdesk | FromProfitCenter

Workdesks inherit assignments from their primary cost center (Workdesk.UID_ProfitCenter).

Assignment by dynamic roles

Assignment through dynamic roles is a special case of indirect assignment. Dynamic roles are used to specify role memberships dynamically. Employees, devices, and workdesks are not permanently assigned to a role, just when they fulfill certain conditions. A check is performed regularly to assess which employees, devices, or workdesks fulfill these conditions. The means the role memberships change dynamically. For example, company resources can be assigned dynamically to all employees in a department in this way; if an employee leaves the department they immediately lose the resources assigned to them.

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Assigning through IT Shop requests

Assignment through the IT Shop is a special case of indirect assignment. Add employees to a shop as customers so that company resources can be assigned through IT Shop requests. All company resources assigned as product to this shop can be requested by the customers. Requested company resources are assigned to the employees after approval is granted. Role memberships can be requested through the IT Shop as well as company resources.

Figure 9: Schema of assignment by requests

Basics of calculating inheritance

Objects assigned through inheritance are calculated by the DBQueue Processor. Tasks are added to the DBQueue when assignments relevant to inheritance are made. These tasks are processed by the DBQueue Processor and result in follow-on tasks for the DBQueue or in processes for process component HandleObjectComponent in the Job queue. Resulting assignments of permissions to user accounts in the target system are inserted, modified, or deleted during process handling.

Figure 10: Overview of inheritance calculation

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