Deploying the Custom Providers

Creating and Managing Generic Technology Connectors 21-3 UNIX environment, you must enter the fully qualified host name of the Oracle Identity Manager server in the etchosts file on the target system server. ■ Creating the user account to be used for creating the generic technology connector All users belonging to the SYSTEM ADMINISTRATORS group of Oracle Identity Manager can create generic technology connectors. Alternatively, members of a group to which you assign the required menu items and permissions can create generic technology connectors. The required menu items are as follows: – Create Generic Technology Connector menu item – Manage Generic Technology Connector menu item The required permissions are as follows: – Form Designer Allow Insert, Write Access, Delete Access – Structure Utility.Additional Column Allow Insert, Write Access, Delete Access – Meta-Table Hierarchy Allow Insert, Write Access, Delete Access If these permissions are not correctly assigned to the group, an error is thrown when the user clicks the Create button on the final Administrative and User Console page for creating generic technology connectors.

21.2.4 Using the Administrative and User Console to Create the Connector

To navigate to the first Administrative and User Console page for creating a generic technology connector, login to the Administrative and User Console, click Advanced, and under Configuration, click Create Generic Connector. From this point onward, page-wise instructions are provided in the following sections: ■ Step 1: Provide Basic Information Page ■ Step 2: Specify Parameter Values Page ■ Step 3: Modify Connector Configuration Page ■ Step 4: Verify Connector Form Names Page ■ Step 5: Verify Connector Information Page

21.2.4.1 Step 1: Provide Basic Information Page

To provide basic information about the generic technology connector that you want to create, use this page as follows

1. In the Name field, specify a name for the generic technology connector.

The following are guidelines related to selecting a name for the generic technology connector: ■ The name must not be the same as that of any other connector predefined connector or generic technology connector on this Oracle Identity Manager installation. ■ The name must not be the same as that of any other connector object such as resource objects, IT resources, and process forms on this Oracle Identity Manager installation. 21-4 Oracle Fusion Middleware Developers Guide for Oracle Identity Manager ■ The name must not contain non-ASCII characters, because Oracle Identity Manager does not support non-ASCII characters in connector names. However, you can include the underscore character _ in the name. 2. If you want to use the generic technology connector for reconciliation, select Reconciliation and perform the following steps: ■ From the Transport Provider list, select the reconciliation transport provider that you want to use for this connector. This list displays the predefined reconciliation transport providers and the reconciliation transport providers that you create. ■ From the Format Provider list, select the reconciliation format provider that you want to use for this connector. This list displays the predefined reconciliation format providers and the reconciliation format providers that you create. ■ If you want to use the connector to perform trusted source reconciliation with the target system, select Trusted Source Reconciliation. 3. If you want to use the generic technology connector for provisioning, select Provisioning and perform the following steps: Note: An error message is displayed if you specify a name that is the same as the name of an existing connector. However, an error message is not displayed if you specify a name that is the same as the name of an existing connector object. Therefore, you must ensure that the name you want to specify is not the same as the name of any existing connector object. See Section 18.4, Connector Objects Created by the Generic Technology Connector Framework for more information about connector objects that are automatically created as part of the generic technology connector creation process. See Also: Section 22.2.1, Names of Generic Technology Connectors and Connector Objects for information about limitations related to the names of generic technology connectors. Note: If you select the shared drive reconciliation transport provider, you must also select the CSV reconciliation format provider because all the parameters of this provider are bundled with the parameters of the shared drive reconciliation transport provider. Note: If you select the Trusted Source Reconciliation check box, the Provisioning region of the page is disabled. This is because you cannot provision to a target system that you designate as a trusted source. You can only reconcile data from a trusted source. Note: You can select only Reconciliation, only Provisioning, or both Reconciliation and Provisioning. Creating and Managing Generic Technology Connectors 21-5 ■ From the Transport Provider list, select the provisioning transport provider that you want to use for this connector. This list displays the predefined provisioning transport providers and the provisioning transport providers that you create. If you select the Web Services provisioning transport provider and if Secure Sockets Layer SSL is enabled for the target Web service, you must perform the procedure described in Section 19.4.1, Configuring SSL Communication Between Oracle Identity Manager and the Target System Web Service . ■ From the Format Provider list, select the provisioning format provider that you want to use for this connector. This list displays the predefined provisioning format providers and the provisioning format providers that you create. If you select the SPML provisioning format provider, you must also select the Web Services provisioning transport provider because the parameters of this provider are related to the parameters of the Web Services provisioning transport provider.

4. Click Continue.

Table 21–1 lists sample entries for the GUI elements on the Step 1: Provide Basic Information page. Figure 21–1 shows the Step 1: Provide Basic Information page on which the entries described in Table 21–1 have been made. Table 21–1 Sample Entries for the Step 1: Provide Basic Information Page Label on the Step 1: Provide Basic Information Page Sample Value or Action Reference Information Name field MyGTC2 NA Reconciliation check box Check box selected NA Transport Provider list Shared Drive shared drive reconciliation transport provider Format Provider list CSV CSV Reconciliation format provider Provisioning check box Check box selected NA Transport Provider list Web Services Web Services provisioning transport provider Format Provider list SPML SPML provisioning format provider