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Identity Manager 9.1.2 - Identity Management Base Module Administration Guide

Basics for mapping company structures in One Identity Manager Dynamic roles Departments, cost centers, and locations
One Identity Manager users for managing departments, cost centers, and locations Basic information for departments, cost centers, and locations Creating and editing departments Creating and editing cost centers Creating and editing locations Setting up IT operating data for departments, cost centers, and locations Assigning employees, devices, and workdesks to departments, cost centers, and locations Assigning company resources to departments, cost centers, and locations Creating dynamic roles for departments, cost centers, and locations Dynamic roles with incorrectly excluded employees Assign organizations Specifying inheritance exclusion for departments, cost centers, and locations Assigning extended properties to departments, cost centers, and locations Certifying departments, cost centers, and locations Reports about departments, cost centers, and locations
Employee administration
One Identity Manager users for employee administration Basic data for employee main data Employee's central user account Employee's default email address Employee's central password Mapping multiple employee identities Password policies for employees Creating and editing employees Disabling and deleting employees Deleting all employee related data Limited access to One Identity Manager Changing the certification status of employees Assigning company resources to employees Displaying the origin of employees' roles and entitlements Analyzing role memberships and employee assignments Displaying the employees overview Displaying and deleting employees' Webauthn security keys Determining the language for employees Determining employees working hours Manually assigning user accounts to employees Entering calls for employees Assigning extended properties to employees Employee reports
Managing devices and workdesks Managing resources Setting up extended properties Configuration parameters for managing departments, cost centers, and locations Configuration parameters for managing employees Configuration parameters for managing devices and workdesks

Basic data for employee main data

The following basic data is required for managing employees.

  • Configuration parameter

    Use configuration parameters to configure the behavior of the system's basic settings. One Identity Manager provides default settings for different configuration parameters. Check the configuration parameters and modify them as necessary to suit your requirements.

    Configuration parameters are defined in the One Identity Manager modules. Each One Identity Manager module can also install configuration parameters. In the Designer, you can find an overview of all configuration parameters in the Base data > General > Configuration parameters category.

  • Business Partners

    When external employees are entered into the system, a company must be named.

  • Mail templates

    The login data for new user accounts in a target system can be sent to a specified person by email. In this case, two messages are sent with the user name and the initial password. Mail templates are used to generate the messages.

  • Password policy

    An employee's central password is formed from the target system specific user accounts by respective configuration. The Employee central password policy defines the settings for the (Person.CentralPassword) central password.

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Creating and editing business partners for external employees

To manage external employees you require information about the business partner. Enter data for the external company.

To create or edit a business partner

  1. In the Manager, select the Employees > Basic configuration data > Business partners category.

  2. In the result list, select a company and run the Change main data task.

    - OR -

    Click in the result list.

  3. Edit the business partner's main data.

  4. Save the changes.

Enter the following data for a company.

Table 26: General main data of a company

Property

Description

Company

Short description of the company for the views in One Identity Manager tools.

Name

Full company name.

Surname prefix

Additional company name.

Short name

Company's short name.

Contact

Contact person for the company.

Partner

Specifies whether this is a partner company.

Customer number

Customer number at the partner company.

Supplier

Specifies whether this is a supplier.

Customer number

Customers number at supplier.

Leasing partner

Specifies whether this is a leasing provider or rental firm.

Manufacturer

Specifies whether this is a manufacturer.

Remarks

Text field for additional explanation.

Table 27: Company address

Property

Description

Street

Street or road.

Building

Building

Zip code

Zip code.

City

City.

State

State.

Country

Country.

Phone

Company's telephone number.

Fax

Company's fax number.

Email address

Company's email address.

Website

Company's website. Click the button to display the web page in the default web browser.

Mail templates for notifications about employees

One Identity Manager supplies mail templates by default. These mail templates are available in English and German. If you require the mail body in other languages, you can add mail definitions for these languages to the default mail template.

To edit a default mail template

  • In the Manager, select the Attestation > Basic configuration data > Mail templates > Predefined category.

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Creating and editing mail definitions for employees

For more information about creating and editing mail template, see the One Identity Manager Operational Guide.

Mail texts can be defined in these different languages in a mail template. This ensures that the language of the recipient is taken into account when the email is generated.

To create a new mail definition

  1. In the Manager, select the Employees > Basic configuration data > Mail templates category.

  1. Select a mail template in the result list and run the Change main data task.

  2. In the result list, select the language for the mail definition in the Language menu.

    All active languages are shown. To use another language, in the Designer, enable the corresponding countries. For more information, see the One Identity Manager Configuration Guide.

  3. Enter the subject in Subject.

  4. Edit the mail text in the Mail definition view with the help of the Mail Text Editor.

  5. Save the changes.

To edit an existing mail definition

  1. In the Manager, select the Employees > Basic configuration data > Mail templates category.

  1. Select a mail template in the result list and run the Change main data task.

  2. In the Mail definition menu, select the language for the mail definition.

    NOTE: If the Common | MailNotification | DefaultCulture configuration parameter is set, the mail definition is loaded in the default language for email notifications when the template is opened.

  3. Edit the mail subject line and the body text.

  4. Save the changes.
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