Introduction

One Identity Manager Data Governance Edition User Guide

This guide contains the information required to administer One Identity Manager Data Governance Edition to manage the unstructured data in your organization. It contains detailed information about the Data Governance Edition features and includes instructions to help administrators perform day-to-day administration activities.

Before you can gather information on the unstructured data in your organization, you must:

• Identify the domains that you want to access and provide the credentials that can perform operations on those resources. For more information, see Adding and editing a service account.
• Select the domains that contain the computers and data that you want to manage and assign the Service Account. For more information, see Adding a managed domain.
• Add the hosts that hold the resources that you want to manage. For more information, see Adding and configuring managed hosts.

This initial setup information is also covered in the One Identity Manager Data Governance Edition Deployment Guide and should already be completed.

Once you have added a managed host, you can:

• Examine a file system, SharePoint farm or other supported platforms to see what users and groups have access to it, and modify the access if required. For more information, see Browsing your environment.
• Examine a user or group to ensure they have the correct data access. For more information, see Managing account access.
• Compare account access for selected users or groups. For more information, see Comparing accounts.
• Simulate the addition or removal of users or groups from selected groups. For more information, see Simulating the effects of group membership modifications on an account.
• Calculate perceived ownership to identify potential business owners for data within your environment. For more information, see Calculating perceived owner.
• Place data under governance and leverage the self-service request attestations, policies, and reports that help you to ensure your data is in compliance. For more information, see Placing a resource under governance.

Available documentation

Data Governance Edition documentation includes the following manuals:

• One Identity Manager Data Governance Edition User Guide

  This guide includes Data Governance Edition administration information.

• One Identity Manager Data Governance Edition Deployment Guide

  This guide includes Data Governance Edition installation, configuration, and deployment information.

• One Identity Manager Data Governance Edition IT Shop Resource Access Requests User Guide

  This guide includes details about the self-service resource requests related to resources that are governed, including the file system share creation request in the IT Shop.

• One Identity Manager Data Governance Edition Technical Insight Guide

  This guide is intended for advanced audiences who want a deeper understanding of the Data Governance Edition components and how they communicate with each other. It also provides a description of the configuration file settings, registry key settings and PowerShell commands.

Online versions of the Data Governance Edition guides are available on the technical support web portal: https://support.oneidentity.com/identity-manager-data-governance-edition/technical-documents

For supporting One Identity Manager information, see the One Identity Manager documentation. Online versions of the One Identity Manager guides are available on the technical support web portal: https://support.oneidentity.com/identity-manager/technical-documents

Data Governance navigation node and views

Data Governance node and views

The Data Governance Edition elements are embedded into the Manager client application. The user interface elements communicate with the Data Governance service and directly with the One Identity Manager database. Communication with the database is performed in the same way as any other One Identity Manager database communication, using the authentication information provided when the user launches the client tools.

The Manager is the main administration tool for configuring Data Governance Edition components and governing unstructured data to secure and control access to your organization's data. The Data Governance node in the Manager's navigation view provides access to the data required to perform the following tasks:

• Configure Data Governance Edition, including:
  • Configuring Data Governance service accounts for managed domains
  • Adding and configuring managed hosts
  • Deploying Data Governance agents
• Manage resource access
• Manage account access
• Manage and set security permissions for network objects
• Manage and set SharePoint security permission levels
• Bring data under governance
• Define classification levels for use in classifying governed data

From the Data Governance navigation view, the following main views become available to configure and manage your Data Governance Edition deployment:

• Info system view
• Service accounts view
• Managed domains view
• Managed hosts view
• Agents view
• Security index view
• Governed data view
• Classification view
• Background operations view

In addition to these main views, the following Data Governance Edition views are available to manage resource access, account access and governed data:

• Resource browser
• Manage access view
• Accounts view

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Customizing your view

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Info system view

Selecting Info system in the Data Governance navigation view displays dashboards for viewing general statistics and the overall status of your Data Governance Edition deployment in real-time.