Creating an Active Roles connection
You can create a connection to Active Roles right after you install Synchronization Service on your computer.
To create a new connection
- In the Synchronization Service Administration Console, open the Connections tab.
- Click Add connection, and then use the following options:
- Connection name. Type a descriptive name for the connection.
- Use the specified connector. Select Active Roles Connector.
- Click Next.
- On the Specify connection settings page, use the following options:
- Connect to. Allows you to specify the Active Roles Administration Service to be used by the Synchronization Service. You can use one of the following options:
- Administration Service on the specified computer. Type the name of the computer running the Administration Service you want the Synchronization Service to use.
- Any Administration Service of the same configuration. Specify any Administration Service whose database holds the necessary configuration: type the DNS name of the computer running that Administration Service. If Active Roles replication is used to synchronize configuration data, this must be any Administration Service whose database server acts as the Publisher for the configuration database.
- Active Roles version. Prompts you to specify the version of the Active Roles Administration Service to which you want to connect. You can choose to connect either to version 7.0 or later or to version 6.9 or earlier. In the latter case, you have to install the Active Roles ADSI Provider of the respective legacy Active Roles version on the computer running the Synchronization Service. For installation instructions, see the Quick Start Guide for Active Roles version 6.9 or earlier.
- Access Active Roles Administration Service using. Allows you to specify an authentication option to access the Active Roles Administration Service. You can use one of the following options:
- Synchronization Service account. Allows you to access the Administration Service in the security context of the user account under which the Synchronization Service is running.
- Windows account. Allows you to access the Administration Service in the security context of the user account whose user name and password you specify below this option.
- Test Connection. Allows you to verify the specified connection settings.
- Click Finish to create a connection to Active Roles.
Modifying an Active Roles connection
To modify connection settings
- In the Synchronization Service Administration Console, open the Connections tab.
- Click Connection settings below the existing Active Roles connection you want to modify.
- Expand Specify connection settings and modify settings as necessary.
- You can use the following options:
- Connect to. Allows you to specify the Active Roles Administration Service to be used by the Synchronization Service. You can use one of the following options:
- Administration Service on the specified computer. Type the name of the computer running the Administration Service you want the Synchronization Service to use.
- Any Administration Service of the same configuration. Specify any Administration Service whose database holds the necessary configuration: type the DNS name of the computer running that Administration Service. If Active Roles replication is used to synchronize configuration data, this must be any Administration Service whose database server acts as the Publisher for the configuration database.
- Active Roles version. Prompts you to specify the version of the Active Roles Administration Service to which you want to connect. You can choose to connect either to version 7.0 or above or to version 6.9 or earlier. In the latter case, you have to install the Active Roles ADSI Provider of the respective legacy Active Roles version on the computer running the Synchronization Service. For installation instructions, see the Quick Start Guide for Active Roles version 6.9 or earlier.
- Access Active Roles Administration Service using. Allows you to specify an authentication option to access the Active Roles Administration Service. You can use one of the following options:
- Synchronization Service account. Allows you to access the Administration Service in the security context of the user account under which the Synchronization Service is running.
- Windows account. Allows you to access the Administration Service in the security context of the user account whose user name and password you specify below this option.
- Test Connection. Allows you to verify the specified connection settings.
- Click Save.
Working with One Identity Manager
To create a connection to One Identity Manager, you need to use Synchronization Service in conjunction with a special connector called One Identity Manager Connector. This connector is included in the Synchronization Service package.
The One Identity Manager Connector supports the following Synchronization Service features:
Table 51: Supported features
Bidirectional synchronization
Allows you to read and write data in the connected data system. |
Yes |
Delta processing mode
Allows you to process only the data that has changed in the connected data system since the last synchronization operation, thereby reducing the overall synchronization operation time. |
Yes |
Password synchronization
Allows you to synchronize user passwords from One Identity Manager domain to the connected data system. |
No |
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Creating a One Identity Manager connection
Synchronization Service supports One Identity Manager out of the box, so you can create a connection to Identity Manager just after you install Synchronization Service.
To create a new connection
- In the Synchronization Service Administration Console, open the Connections tab.
- Click Add connection, and then use the following options:
- Connection name. Type a descriptive name for the connection.
- Use the specified connector. Select One Identity Manager Connector.
- Click Next.
- On the Specify connection settings page, use the following options:
- Application Server URL. Specify the address of the One Identity Manager application server to which you want to connect.
- Authentication module. Identifies the One Identity Manager authentication module that is to be used to verify the connection’s user ID and password.
- User name. Specify the user ID for this connection.
- Password. Specify the password of the user ID for this connection.
- Test Connection. Click to verify the specified connection settings.
- Click Next.
The One Identity Manager modules, target systems, and containers are displayed.
- Select the required One Identity Manager modules.
NOTE: The One Identity Manager target systems and One Identity Manager containers are applicable only for the Target System Base module (UNS..B tables).
- Click Finish to create a connection to One Identity Manager.