Customizing Synchronization Configuration

Customizing Synchronization Configuration

You have used the Synchronization EditorOne Identity Manager tool for configuring target system synchronization. to set up a synchronization project for initial synchronization with a cloud application. You can use this synchronization project to load cloud application objects into the One Identity Managercloud database. If you manage user accounts and their authorizations with One Identity Manager, changes are provisioned in the cloud application.

You must customize the synchronization configuration in order to compare the database with the cloud application regularly and to synchronize changes.

• Create a workflow with the direction of synchronization "target system" to use One Identity Manager as the master system for synchronization.
• To specify which cloud objects and database objects are included in synchronization, edit the scope of the target system connection and the One Identity Manager database connection. To prevent data inconsistencies, define the same scope in both systems. If no scope is defined, all objects will be synchronized.
• You can use variables to create generally applicable synchronization configurations which contain the necessary information about the synchronization objects when synchronization starts. Variables can be implemented in base objects, schema classes or processing methods, for example.
• Update the schema in the synchronization project, if the One Identity Manager schema or target system schema has changed. Then you can add the changes to the mapping.

For more detailed information about configuring synchronization, see the One Identity Manager Target SystemAn instance of a target system in which the employees managed by One Identity Manager have access to network resources. Example: An Active Directory domain X for target system type "Active Directory", a directory Y for target system type "LDAP", a client Z for target system type "SAP R/3". SynchronizationThe process of comparing data between One Identity Manager and a target system. Objects and their properties are compared by fixed rules. Synchronization results in the identical data situation in the target system and One Identity Manager database. Reference Guide.

Detailed information about this topic

• How to Configure Cloud Application Synchronization
• Updating Schemas

How to Configure Cloud Application Synchronization

How to Configure Cloud Application Synchronization

The synchronization project for initial synchronization provides a workflow for initial loading of Cloudtarget system objects (initial synchronization) and one for provisioning object modifications from the One Identity Manager database to the target system (provisioning). You also require a workflow with synchronization in the direction of the "target system" to use One Identity Manager as the master system for synchronization.

To create a synchronization configuration for synchronizing a cloud application

1. Open the synchronization project in the Synchronization EditorOne Identity Manager tool for configuring target system synchronization..

2. Check whether existing mappings can be used for synchronizing the cloud application. Create new maps if required.
3. Create a new workflow with the workflow wizard.

   This adds a workflow for synchronizing in the direction of the target system.

4. Create a new start up configuration. Use the new workflow to do this.
5. Save the changes.

6. Run a consistency check.

Updating Schemas

Updating Schemas

All the schema data (schema types and schema properties) of the target system schema and the One Identity Manager schema are available when you are editing a synchronization project. Only a part of this data is really needed for configuring synchronization. If a synchronization project is finished, the schema is compressed to remove unnecessary data from the synchronization project. This can speed up loading the synchronization project. Deleted schema data can be added to the synchronization configuration again at a later point.

If the target system schema or the One Identity Manager schema has changed, these changes must also be added to the synchronization configuration. Then the changes can be added to the schema property mapping.

To include schema data that have been deleted through compressing and schema modifications in the synchronization project, update each schema in the synchronization project. This may be necessary if:

• A schema was changed by:
  • Changes to a target system schema
  • Customizations to the One Identity Manager schema
  • A One Identity Manager update migration
• A schema in the synchronization project was shrunk by:
  • Activating the synchronization project
  • Synchronization projectA collection of all data required for synchronizing and provisioning a target system. Connection data, schema classes and properties, mappings, and synchronization workflows all belongs to this. initial save
  • Compressing a schema

To update a system connection schema

1. Open the synchronization project in the Synchronization EditorOne Identity Manager tool for configuring target system synchronization..

2. Select the category Configuration | Target system.

   - OR -

   Select the category

   Configuration | One Identity Manager connection.

3. Select the view General and click Update schema.
4. Confirm the security prompt with Yes.

   This reloads the schema data.

To edit a mapping

1. Open the synchronization project in the SynchronizationThe process of comparing data between One Identity Manager and a target system. Objects and their properties are compared by fixed rules. Synchronization results in the identical data situation in the target system and One Identity Manager database. Editor.

2. Select the category Mappings.
3. Select a mapping in the navigation view.

   Opens the MappingList of object matching rules and property mapping rules which map the schema properties of two connected systems to one another. Editor. For more detailed information about editing mappings, see One Identity Manager Target SystemAn instance of a target system in which the employees managed by One Identity Manager have access to network resources. Example: An Active Directory domain X for target system type "Active Directory", a directory Y for target system type "LDAP", a client Z for target system type "SAP R/3". Synchronization Reference Guide.

Speeding Up Synchronization with Revision Filtering

Speeding Up Synchronization with Revision Filtering

When you start synchronization, all synchronization objects are loaded. Some of these objects have not be modified since the last synchronization and, therefore, must not be processed. SynchronizationThe process of comparing data between One Identity Manager and a target system. Objects and their properties are compared by fixed rules. Synchronization results in the identical data situation in the target system and One Identity Manager database. is accelerated by only loading those object pairs that have changed since the last synchronization. One Identity Manager uses revision filtering to accelerate synchronization.

SCIM supports revision filtering. The cloud objects' date of last change is used as revision counter. Each synchronization save its last execution date as revision in the the One Identity Manager database (table DPRRevisionStore, column Value). This value is used as a comparison for revision filtering when the same workflow is synchronized the next time. When this workflow is synchronized the next time, the cloud objects' change date is compared with theOne Identity Manager revision saved in the database. Only those objects that have been changed since this date are loaded from the cloud application.

The revision is found at start of synchronization. Objects changed after this point are included with the next synchronization.

RevisionHighest value for change data for all system objects to be synchronized when synchronization is run. This value is saved in the table "DPRRevisionStore", column "value". filtering can be applied to workflows and start up configuration.

To permit revision filtering on a workflow

• Open the synchronization project in the Synchronization EditorOne Identity Manager tool for configuring target system synchronization..

• Edit the workflow properties. Select the entry Use revision filter from Revision filtering.

To permit revision filtering for a start up configuration

• Open the synchronization project in the Synchronization Editor.

• Edit the start up configuration properties. Select the entry Use revision filter from Revision filtering.

For more detailed information about revision filtering, see the One Identity Manager Target SystemAn instance of a target system in which the employees managed by One Identity Manager have access to network resources. Example: An Active Directory domain X for target system type "Active Directory", a directory Y for target system type "LDAP", a client Z for target system type "SAP R/3". Synchronization Reference Guide.