Quick Connect Sync Engine 5.5 - Administrator Guide

Cleaning up synchronization history

You can selectively delete entries from the workflow history and object mapping history. To delete entries, you can either run the cleanup operation once or you can create a recurring schedule to run the cleanup operation on a regular basis.

To run the cleanup operation once

1. In the Quick Connect Administration Console, open the Sync History tab.
2. Click Clean up now.
3. Specify what entries you want to delete.
4. Click OK to delete the entries from the synchronization history.

To create a recurring schedule for the cleanup operation

1. In the Quick Connect Administration Console, open the Sync History tab.
2. Click Schedule cleanup.
3. In the dialog box that opens, select the Schedule the task to run check box, and then specify a schedule for the cleanup operation.
4. If several One Identity Quick Connect Sync Engine instances are deployed in your environment, under Run the task on, select the computer that hosts the instance you want to use for running the cleanup operation.
5. Click OK to activate the schedule.

To disable a scheduled cleanup operation

1. In the Quick Connect Administration Console, open the Sync History tab.
2. Click Schedule cleanup.
3. In the dialog box that opens, clear the Schedule the task to run check box, and then click OK.

Scenarios of use

• About scenarios
• Scenario 1: Provision users from a .csv file to an Active Directory domain
• Scenario 2: Use a .csv file to update user accounts in an Active Directory domain
• Scenario 3: Synchronizing data between One Identity Manager Custom Target Systems and an Active Directory domain
• Scenario 4: Deprovisioning between One Identity Manager Custom Target Systems and an Active Directory domain
• Scenario 5: Provisioning of Groups between One Identity Manager Custom Target Systems and an Active Directory domain
• Scenario 6: Enabling Delta Sync mode between One Identity Manager Custom Target Systems and an Active Directory domain

About scenarios

This section provides some use case scenarios that help you familiarize yourself with Quick Connect. The scenarios illustrate how to create and run synchronization workflows and their steps to update and provision user information from a Human Resources database represented by a delimited text file to an Active Directory domain.

The scenarios are:

• Scenario 1: Provision users from a .csv file to an Active Directory domain. In this scenario, Quick Connect provisions user accounts from a Comma Separated Values (.csv) file that includes a Human Resources (HR) database to individual Organizational Units in an Active Directory domain, depending on the city where each user is based.
• Scenario 2: Use a .csv file to update user accounts in an Active Directory domain. In this scenario, Quick Connect updates user accounts in an Active Directory domain based on the changes made to the Human Resources (HR) database saved in a Comma Separated Values (.csv) file.
• Scenario 3: Synchronizing data between One Identity Manager Custom Target Systems and an Active Directory domain. In this scenario, Quick Connect updates data in One Identity Manager based on the changes made in Active Directory domain.
• Scenario 4: Deprovisioning between One Identity Manager Custom Target Systems and an Active Directory domain. In this scenario, Quick connect deprovisioning synchronized objects in One Identity Manager processed from the Active Directory domain.
• Scenario 5: Provisioning of Groups between One Identity Manager Custom Target Systems and an Active Directory domain. In this scenario, Quick Connect provisions group objects to be synchronized to One Identity Manager from Active Directory domain.
• Scenario 6: Enabling Delta Sync mode between One Identity Manager Custom Target Systems and an Active Directory domain. In this scenario, Quick Connect updates data in One Identity Manager based on the changes made in Active Directory domain in the delta sync mode.

Before you proceed with these sample scenarios (Scenario 1 and Scenario 2), perform the following steps:

1. Make sure you have installed the Quick Connect for Base Systems package. For the installation instructions, see the Quick Connect for Base Systems documentation.
2. Make sure you have properly configured the connection to the target Active Directory domain in the Quick Connect Administration Console.
3. Create the Employees Organizational Unit (OU) at the root of the target Active Directory domain.
4. In the Employees OU, create the following OUs:
   • New York
   • Tokyo
   • Amsterdam
   • OtherCities

Scenario 1: Provision users from a .csv file to an Active Directory domain

The following scenario demonstrates how to provision user accounts from a Human Resources (HR) database to an Active Directory domain. The HR database is represented by a sample Comma Separated Values (.csv) file supplied with the Quick Connect for Base Systems package. Depending on the user city, accounts will be provisioned to one of the following OUs:

• Employees\New York
• Employees\Tokyo
• Employees\Amsterdam
• Employees\OtherCities

This scenario includes the following steps:

• Step 1: Create a workflow
• Step 2: Create a provisioning step
• Step 3: Run the created provisioning step
• Step 4: Commit changes to Active Directory