Sun Identity Manager Deployment Guide

Summary of Data Loading Types

The following table compares the capabilities of discovery and reconciliation.

Table 3–1 Summary of Data Loading Types

Function  

Discovery 

Reconciliation 

Active Sync 

Detect new accounts 

Yes 

Yes 

Yes 

Detect deleted accounts 

No 

Yes 

Yes 

Detect changes in account attribute values 

No 

Yes 

Yes 

Detect accounts that are not associated with Identity Manager users 

Yes 

Yes 

Yes 

Detect when a user has been moved from one container on a resource to another container on a resource 

No 

Yes 

Yes 

Correlate accounts with Identity Manager users 

Yes 

Yes 

Yes 

Run a workflow in response to each account situation that it detects 

No 

Yes 

Yes 

Can be scheduled 

No 

Yes 

Yes 

Incremental mode 

No 

Yes 

Not applicable 

Add entries to the account index 

No 

Yes 

Yes 

Synchronize attributes on multiple resources 

No 

No 

Yes