Quick Connect Sync Engine 5.5 - Administrator Guide

Steps to unmap objects

You can unmap the objects that were mapped earlier.

To unmap objects

1. In the Quick Connect Administration Console, open the Mapping tab.
2. Click the name of the connection for which you want to unmap objects.
3. Click the mapping pair that specifies the objects types you want to unmap.
4. Click Unmap now and wait until the unmap operation completes.

   After the unmap operation completes, the Quick Connect Administration Console displays a report which provides information about the objects that participated in the unmap operation. At this stage, the application does not unmap the objects. To unmap them, you need to commit the result of the unmap operation.

   You can click the number provided next to an object category name in the report to view the details of objects that belong to that category.

5. Review the report on the objects that participated in the unmap operation, and then click Commit to unmap the objects.

Automated password synchronization

• About automated password synchronization
• Steps to automate password synchronization
• Managing Capture Agent
• Managing password sync rules
• Fine-tuning automated password synchronization

About automated password synchronization

If your enterprise environment has multiple data management systems, each having its own password policy and dedicated user authentication mechanism, you may face one or more of the following issues:

• Because users have to remember multiple passwords, they may have difficulty managing them. Some users may even write down their passwords. As a result, passwords can be easily compromised.
• Each time users forget one or several of their numerous access passwords, they have to ask administrators for password resets. This increases operational costs and translates into a loss of productivity.
• There is no way to implement a single password policy for all of the data management systems. This too impacts productivity, as users have to log on to each data management system separately in order to change their passwords.

With Quick Connect, you can eliminate these issues and significantly simplify password management in an enterprise environment that includes multiple data management systems.

Quick Connect provides a cost-effective and efficient way to synchronize user passwords from an Active Directory domain to other data systems used in your organization. As a result, users can access other data management systems using their Active Directory domain password. Whenever a user password is changed in the source Active Directory domain, this change is immediately and automatically propagated to other data systems, so each user password remains in sync in the data systems at all times.

You need to connect One Identity Quick Connect Sync Engine to the data systems in which you want to synchronize passwords through special connectors supplied in Quick Connect packages (also known as bundles). For a list of data systems in which you can synchronize passwords by using a particular Quick Connect package, see the Quick Start Guide supplied with that package.

Steps to automate password synchronization

To automatically synchronize passwords from an Active Directory domain to another data system, complete these steps:

1. Install Capture Agent on each domain controller in the Active Directory domain you want to be the source for password synchronization operations.

   Capture Agent tracks changes to the user passwords in the source Active Directory domain and provides this information to the Quick Connect Service (a component of the One Identity Quick Connect Sync Engine), which in turn synchronizes passwords in the target connected systems you specify.

   For more information on how to install Capture Agent, see Managing Capture Agent.

2. Connect the One Identity Quick Connect Sync Engine to the Active Directory domain where you installed Capture Agent in step 1.

   Alternatively, you can configure a connection to Quest ActiveRoles Server that manages the source Active Directory domain.

3. Connect the One Identity Quick Connect Sync Engine to the data system where you want to synchronize user object passwords with those in the source Active Directory domain.
   • For some target data systems (such as SQL Server and Oracle Database) you must specify the data you want to participate in the password synchronization by configuring an SQL query. For more information, see the section titled “Using an SQL Query to Specify Data in a Connected System” in the Quick Start Guide supplied with the Quick Connect package that provides connectors for those data systems.
   • If the target data system is an LDAP directory service accessed via the generic LDAP connector, you must specify the target object type for which you want to synchronize passwords and the attribute where you want to store object passwords.
4. Ensure that user objects in the source Active Directory domain are properly mapped to their counterparts in the target connected system.

   For more information about mapping objects, see Mapping objects.

   Quick Connect automatically maps objects between the source Active Directory domain and the target connected system if you configure synchronization workflows to manage the provision and deprovision operations between the source AD domain (or Quest ActiveRoles Server that manages that domain) and the target connected system.

   For more information on synchronization workflows, see Synchronizing identity data.

5. Create a password synchronization rule for the target connected system.

   For more information, see Creating a password sync rule.

After you complete the above steps, the One Identity Quick Connect Sync Engine starts to automatically track user password changes in the source AD domain and synchronize passwords in the target connected system.

If necessary, you can fine-tune the password synchronization settings by completing these optional tasks:

• Modify the default Capture Agent settings.

  For more information, see Configuring Capture Agent.

• Modify the default Quick Connect Service settings related to password synchronization.

  For more information, see Configuring Quick Connect Service.

• Specify a custom certificate for encrypting the password sync traffic between the Capture Agent and the Quick Connect Service. By default, a built-in certificate is used for this purpose.

  For more information, see Specifying a custom certificate for encrypting password sync traffic.

• Configure the One Identity Quick Connect Sync Engine to automatically run your PowerShell script after the password synchronization completes.

  For more information, see Using PowerShell scripts with password synchronization.