Sun Identity Manager 8.1 Resources Reference

Chapter 13 External Resource

The External Resource adapter is defined in the com.waveset.adapter.ExternalResourceAdapter class.

Adapter Details

Resource Configuration Notes

This adapter is configured by selecting Configure > External Resources. You must configure tasks these two features: storage of the resource information and how provisioners of the resource are notified

Datastore – All external resources require an external datastore. This datastore can be either a directory or database. If the datastore is a database, see the description of the ScriptedJDBC resource adapter for information about configuration. If the datastore is a directory, see the description of the LDAP adapter.
Provisioner notification – You can configure these notification settings through either the Configure > External Resource path or on a resource-specific basis.

Identity Manager Installation Notes

If the datastore is a database, follow the installation instructions for the ScriptedJDBC adapter, and if the datastore is a directory, follow the installation instructions for the LDAP adapter.

Usage Notes

The External Resource adapter picks up the datastore information from the external resource configuration. If the datastore information is modified during configuration, then the External Resources configuration settings are updated as well.

To modify the datastore configuration of an external resource, you must modify the External Resource configuration. Note that a change to the system-wide configuration causes all external resources to be updated with the new datastore configuration.

Active Sync Configuration

None

Security Notes

If the datastore is a database, refer to the ScriptedJDBC adapter, and if the datastore is a directory, refer to the LDAP adapter.

Provisioning Notes

The following table summarizes the provisioning capabilities of this adapter.

Feature	Supported?
Enable/disable account	Yes
Rename account	Yes
Pass-through authentication	No
Before/after actions	No
Dataloading methods	No

Account Attributes

None.

Resource Object Management

If the datastore is a database, refer to the ScriptedJDBC adapter, and if the datastore is a directory, refer to the LDAP adapter.

Identity Template

If the datastore is a database, refer to the ScriptedJDBC adapter, and if the datastore is a directory, refer to the LDAP adapter.

Sample Forms

None.

Troubleshooting

Use the Identity Manager Debug pages to set trace options on the following classes:

com.waveset.adapter.ExternalResourcesAdapter

For additional troubleshooting directions, refer to the ScriptedJDBC adapter if the datastore is a database, and if the datastore is a directory, refer to the LDAP adapter.