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Identity Manager 8.0.5 - Administration Guide for Connecting to Active Directory

Managing Active Directory Environments Setting up Active Directory Synchronization Base Data for Managing Active Directory Active Directory Domains Active Directory User Accounts Active Directory Contacts Active Directory groups Active Directory Security IDs Active Directory Container Structures Active Directory computer Active Directory Printers Active Directory Locations Reports about Active Directory Objects Appendix: Configuration Parameters for Managing Active Directory Appendix: Default Project Template for Active Directory Appendix: Authentication Modules for Logging into the One Identity Manager

Managing Active Directory Environments

Complex Windows environments, which include Active Directory, can be mapped and synchronized in One Identity Manager. Administration of Active Directory objects such as users, contact groups, computers and organizational units is possible using hierarchical domain structures in One Identity Manager.

One Identity Manager provides company employees with the necessary user accounts. For this, you can use different mechanisms to connect employees to their user accounts. You can also manage user accounts independently of employees and therefore set up administrator user accounts.

Administration of groups in One Identity Manager enables users to be supplied with necessary authorizations. You can set up organizational units in a hierarchical container structure in One Identity Manager. Organizational units (branches or departments) are used to logically organize objects such as users, groups and computers. This makes it easier to manage objects.

Architecture Overview

The following servers are used for managing an Active Directory system in One Identity Manager:

  • Active Directory domain controller

    Domain controller against which the Active Directory objects are synchronized. The synchronization server connects to this server in order to access Active Directory objects.

  • Synchronization server

    The synchronization server for synchronizing the One Identity Manager database with the Active Directory system. The One Identity Manager Service is installed on this server with the Active Directory connector. The synchronization server connects to the Active Directory domain controller.

The Active Directory connector in One Identity Manager uses ADSI for communicating with a domain controller. The Active Directory connector is used for synchronization and provisioning Active Directory. The Active Directory connector communicates directly with a domain controller.

Figure 1: Architecture for synchronization

One Identity Manager Users for Managing an Active Directory System

The following users are used in Active Directory system administration.

Table 1: User
User Task
Target system administrators

Target system administrators must be assigned to the application role Target system | Administrators.

Users with this application role:

  • Administrate application roles for individual target systems types.
  • Specify the target system manager.
  • Set up other application roles for target system managers if required.
  • Specify which application roles are conflicting for target system managers
  • Authorize other employee to be target system administrators.
  • Do not assume any administrative tasks within the target system.
Target system managers

Target system managers must be assigned to the application role Target systems | Active Directory or a sub application role.

Users with this application role:

  • Assume administrative tasks for the target system.
  • Create, change or delete target system objects, like user accounts or groups.
  • Edit password policies for the target system.
  • Prepare groups for adding to the IT Shop.
  • Configure synchronization in the Synchronization Editor and defines the mapping for comparing target systems and One Identity Manager.
  • Edit the synchronization's target system types and outstanding objects.
  • Authorize other employees within their area of responsibility as target system managers and create child application roles if required.
One Identity Manager administrators
  • Create customized permissions groups for application roles for role-based login to administration tools in the Designer, as required.
  • Create system users and permissions groups for non-role based login to administration tools, as required.
  • Enable or disable additional configuration parameters in the Designer, as required.
  • Create custom processes in the Designer, as required.
  • Create and configures schedules, as required.
  • Create and configure password policies, as required.
Administrators for the IT Shop

Administrators must be assigned to the application role Request & Fulfillment | IT Shop | Administrators.

Users with this application role:

  • Assign groups to IT Shop structures.

Product owner for the IT Shop

The product owners must be assigned to the application roles Request & Fulfillment | IT Shop | Product owners or an application role below that.

Users with this application role:

  • Approve through requests.
  • Edit service items and service categories under their management.
Administrators for organizations

Administrators must be assigned to the application role Identity Management | Organizations | Administrators.

Users with this application role:

  • Assign groups to departments, cost centers and locations.
Business roles administrators

Administrators must be assigned to the application role Identity Management | Business roles | Administrators.

Users with this application role:

  • Assign groups to business roles.

Setting up Active Directory Synchronization

One Identity Manager supports synchronization with Active Directory, shipped with Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016.

To load Active Directory objects into the One Identity Manager database for the first time

  1. Prepare a user account with sufficient permissions for synchronizing in Active Directory.

  2. The One Identity Manager parts for managing Active Directory systems are available if the configuration parameter "TargetSystem\ADS" is set.

    • Check whether the configuration parameter is set in the Designer. Otherwise, set the configuration parameter and compile the database.

    • Other configuration parameters are installed when the module is installed. Check the configuration parameters and modify them as necessary to suit your requirements.
  3. Install and configure a synchronization server and declare the server as Job server in One Identity Manager.
  4. Create a synchronization project with the Synchronization Editor.
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