3.2 Creating the Driver in iManager

You create the Entitlements Service driver by importing the driver’s basic configuration file and then modifying the configuration to suit your environment. After you’ve created and configured the driver, you need to start it.

3.2.1 Importing the Driver Configuration File

  1. In iManager, click Driver icon to display the Identity Manager Administration page.

  2. In the Administration list, click Import Configuration to launch the Import Configuration Wizard.

  3. Follow the wizard prompts, filling in the requested information (described below) until you reach the Summary page.

    Prompt

    Description

    Where do you want to place the new driver?

    You can add the driver to an existing driver set, or you can create a new driver set and add the driver to the new set. If you choose to create a new driver set, you are prompted to specify the name, context, and server for the driver set.

    Import a configuration into this driver set

    Use the default option, Import a configuration from the server (.XML file).

    In the Show field, select Identity Manager 3.6 configurations.

    In the Configurations field, select the Entitlement file.

    Driver name

    Type a name for the driver. The name must be unique within the driver set.

    Define Security Equivalences

    The driver requires rights to User objects within the Identity Vault. The Admin user object is most often used to supply these rights. However, you might want to create a DriversUser (for example) and assign security equivalence to that user. Whatever rights that the driver needs to have on the server, the DriversUser object must have the same security rights.

    Exclude Administrative Roles

    You should exclude any administrative User objects (for example, Admin and DriversUser) from synchronization.

    When you finish providing the information required by the wizard, a Summary page similar to the following is displayed.

    At this point, the driver is created from the basic configuration file and will run. As with all Identity Manager drivers, the Entitlements Service driver includes configuration settings you can use to customize and optimize the driver for you environment.

  4. To modify the default configuration settings, click the linked driver name, then continue with the next section, Configuring the Driver Settings.

    or

    To skip the configuration settings at this time, click Finish. When you are ready to configure the settings, continue with the next section, Configuring the Driver Settings.

3.2.2 Configuring the Driver Settings

After you import the driver configuration file, the Entitlements Service driver will run. However, there are many configuration settings that you can use to customize and optimize the driver. The settings are divided into categories such as Driver Configuration, Engine Control Values, and Global Configuration Values (GCVs).

To configure the settings:

  1. Make sure the Modify Object page for the Entitlements Service driver is displayed in iManager. If it is not:

    1. In iManager, click to display the Identity Manager Administration page.

    2. Click Identity Manager Overview.

    3. Browse to and select the driver set object that contains the new driver.

    4. Click the driver set name to access the Driver Set Overview page.

    5. Click the upper right corner of the driver, then click Edit properties.

  2. Review the settings on the various pages and modify them as needed for your environment. The configuration settings are explained in Section A.0, Driver Properties.

  3. After modifying the settings, click OK to save the settings and close the Modify Object page.

  4. (Conditional) If the Entitlement driver’s Summary page for the Import Configuration wizard is still displayed, click Finish.

    WARNING:Do not click Cancel on the Summary page. This removes the driver from the Identity Vault and results in the loss of your work.

3.2.3 Starting the Driver

When a driver is created, it is stopped by default. To make the driver work, you must start the driver and cause events to occur. Identity Manager is an event-driven system, so after the driver is started, it won’t do anything until an event occurs.

To start the driver:

  1. In iManager, click to display the Identity Manager Administration page.

  2. Click Identity Manager Overview.

  3. Browse to and select the driver set object that contains the driver you want to start.

  4. Click the driver set name to access the Driver Set Overview page.

  5. Click the upper right corner of the driver to display the Actions menu, then click Start driver.

For information about management tasks with the driver, see Section 7.0, Managing the Driver.