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Appendix D
Capabilities Definitions

This appendix is organized into the following sections:

For general information about capabilities, see Understanding and Managing Capabilities.


Note

All capabilities grant the user or administrator access to the Passwords > Change My Password and Change My Answers tabs.



Task-Based Capabilities Definitions

This section describes each of the task-based capabilities that can be assigned to users. It also lists the tabs and subtabs that can be accessed with each capability. Capabilities are listed in alphabetical order by name.

Table D-1  Identity Manager Task-Based Capabilities Definitions (Page 1 of 13)

Capability

Allows the Administrator/User to:

Can Access These Tabs and Subtabs:

Access Review Detail Report Administrator

Create, edit, delete, and execute Access Review Detail Reports

Reports > Run Reports tab, View Reports tab- Access Review Detail Reports only

Reports > View Dashboards

Access Review Summary Report Administrator

Create, edit, delete, and execute Access Review Summary Reports

Reports - Access Review Summary Reports only

Reports > View Dashboards

Account Administrator

Perform all operations on users, including assigning capabilities. Does not include bulk operations.

Accounts - List Accounts, Find Users, Extract to File, Load from File, Load from Resource tabs

Passwords - All subtabs

Work Items - Approvals subtab

Tasks - All subtabs

Admin Report Administrator

Create, edit, delete, and run administrator reports.

Reports - Manage Reports, Run Reports subtabs (Administrator report only)

Admin Role Administrator

Create, edit, and delete admin roles.

Security - Admin Roles subtab

Application Administrator

Create, edit, and delete Application roles.

Tasks - Find Tasks, All Tasks, Run Tasks subtabs (synchronize roles)

Roles - All subtabs

Approver Administrator

Approve or reject requests initiated by other users.

Default only

Asset Administrator

Create, edit, and delete Asset roles.

Tasks - Find Tasks, All Tasks, Run Tasks subtabs (synchronize roles)

Roles - All subtabs

Assign Audit Policies

Assign audit policies to user accounts and organizations.

Accounts - Edit User Audit Policy from the User Actions list.

Accounts - Edit Organization Audit Policy from the Organization Actions list.

Assign Organization Audit Policies

Assign audit policies to organizations only.

Accounts - Edit Organization Audit Policy from the Organization Actions list; List Accounts tab

Assign User Audit Policies

Assign audit policies to users only.

Accounts - Edit User Audit Policy from the User Actions list; List Accounts tab; Find Users tab

Assign User Capabilities

Change user capabilities assignments (assign and unassign).

Accounts - List Accounts (Edit only), Find Users subtabs.

Must be assigned with another user administrator capability (for example, Create User or Enable User).

Audit Policy Administrator

Create, modify, and delete audit policies.

Compliance - Manage Policies

Audit Policy Scan Report Administrator

Create, modify, delete, and execute the Audit Policy Scan Report.

Reports - Audit Policy Scan reports only

Audit Report Administrator

Create, modify, delete, and execute audit reports.

Reports - Audit report only

Audited Attribute Report Administrator

Create, modify, delete, and execute the Audited Attribute Report.

Reports - Audited Attribute reports only

AuditLog Report Administrator

Create, modify, delete, and execute the AuditLog Report.

Reports - AuditLog reports only

Auditor Access Scan Administrator

Create, edit, and delete Periodic Access Review scans

Compliance - Manage Access Scans

Auditor Administrator

Set up, manage, and monitor audit policies, audit scans and user compliance.

Compliance - All subtabs

Reports - Run Reports, View Reports, and manage Auditor Reports

Accounts - Edit User Audit Policies and Edit Organization Audit Policies actions.

Auditor Attestor

Required to attest other users’ attestations while organization security is enabled.

Default only

Auditor Periodic Access Review Administrator

Manage Periodic Access Reviews (PAR), manage access scans, manage attestations, manage PAR reports.

Compliance - Manage Access Scans, Access Review subtabs

Auditor Remediator

Remediate, mitigate, and forward audit policy violations.

Remediations - All subtabs

Auditor Report Administrator

Create, modify, delete, and execute any of the Auditor Reports.

Reports - all actions on auditor reports

Auditor View User

View compliance information associated with user.

Accounts - List Accounts, Find Users tabs

AuditPolicy Violation History Administrator

Create. modify, delete, and execute the AuditPolicy Violation History report.

Reports - AuditPolicy Violation History reports only

Bulk Account Administrator

Perform regular and bulk operations on users, including assigning capabilities.

Accounts - All subtabs

Passwords - All subtabs

Approvals - All subtabs

Tasks - All subtabs

Bulk Change Account Administrator

Perform regular and bulk operations except delete on existing users, including assigning capabilities.

Accounts - List Accounts, Find Users, Launch Bulk Actions subtabs. Cannot create or delete users.

Passwords - All subtabs

Approvals - All subtabs

Tasks - All subtabs

Bulk Change Resource Password Administrator

Change the password for the specified resource connection account on the specified resources.

Resources -Launch Bulk Actions subtab

Bulk Change User Account Administrator

Perform regular and bulk operations except delete on existing users.

Accounts - List Accounts, Find Users, Launch Bulk Actions subtabs. Cannot create, delete, or assign capabilities to users.

Passwords - All subtabs

Tasks - All subtabs

Bulk Create User

Assign resources and initiate user create requests (on individual users and by using bulk operations).

Accounts - List Accounts (Create only), Find Users, Launch Bulk Actions subtabs

Tasks - All subtabs

Bulk Delete User

Delete Identity Manager user accounts; deprovision, unassign, and unlink resource accounts (on individual users and by using bulk operations).

Accounts - List Accounts (Create only), Find Users, Launch Bulk Actions subtabs

Tasks - All subtabs

Bulk Delete IDM User

Delete existing Identity Manager user accounts (on individual users and by using bulk operations).

Accounts - List Accounts (Delete only), Find Users, Launch Bulk Actions subtabs

Tasks - All subtabs

Bulk Deprovision User

Delete and unlink existing resource accounts (on individual users and by using bulk operations).

Accounts - List Accounts (Deprovision only), Find Users, Launch Bulk Actions subtabs

Tasks - All subtabs

Bulk Disable User

Disable existing users and resource accounts (on individual users and by using bulk operations).

Accounts - List Accounts (Disable only), Find Users, Launch Bulk Actions subtabs

Tasks - All subtabs

Bulk Enable User

Enable existing users and resource accounts (on individual users and by using bulk operations).

Accounts - List Accounts (Enable only), Find Users, Launch Bulk Actions subtabs

Tasks - All subtabs

Bulk Reset Resource Password Administrator

Reset the password for the specified resource connection account on the specified resources.

Resources -Launch Bulk Actions subtab

Bulk Unassign User

Unassign and unlink existing resource accounts (on individual users and by using bulk operations).

Accounts - List Accounts (Unassign only), Find Users, Launch Bulk Actions subtabs

Tasks - All subtabs

Bulk Unlink User

Unlink existing resource accounts (on individual users and by using bulk operations).

Accounts - List Accounts (Unlink only), Find Users, Launch Bulk Actions subtabs

Tasks - All subtabs

Bulk Update User

Update existing users and resource accounts (on individual users and by using bulk operations).

Accounts - List Accounts (Update only), Find Users, Launch Bulk Actions subtabs

Tasks - All subtabs

Bulk User Account Administrator

Perform all regular and bulk operations on users.

Accounts - All subtabs

Passwords - All subtabs

Tasks - All subtabs

Business Role Administrator

Create, edit, and delete Business Roles.

Tasks - Find Tasks, All Tasks, Run Tasks subtabs (synchronize roles)

Roles - All subtabs

Capability Administrator

Create, modify, and delete capabilities.

Configure - Capabilities subtab

Change Account Administrator

Perform all operations except delete on existing users, including assigning capabilities. Does not include bulk operations

Accounts - All subtabs. Cannot delete users.

Passwords - All subtabs

Approvals - All subtabs

Tasks - All subtabs

Reports - Create admin and user reports, run and edit admin reports, run AuditLog reports in scope. Cannot run admin and user reports on out-of-scope organizations.

Change Active Sync Resource Administrator

Change active sync resource parameters.

Tasks - Find Tasks, All Tasks, Run Tasks subtabs

Resources - For Active Sync resources: Edit actions menu, Edit Active Sync Parameters

Change Password Administrator

Change user and resource account passwords.

Accounts - List Accounts, Find Users subtabs (Change Password only)

Passwords - All subtabs

Tasks - All subtabs. Export Password Scan task only (from Run Tasks subtab)

Change Password Administrator (Verification Required)

Change user and resource account passwords following successful validation of the user's authentication question answers.

Accounts - List Accounts, Find Users subtabs (Change Password only; verification required before action)

Passwords - All subtabs

Tasks - All subtabs. Export Password Scan task only (from Run Tasks subtab)

Change Resource Password Administrator

Change resource administrator account passwords.

Tasks - All subtabs

Resources - List Resources subtab. Change resource password only (from Manage Connection-->Change Password in the actions menu)

Change User Account Administrator

Perform all operations except delete on existing users. Does not include bulk operations

Accounts - List Accounts, Find Users subtabs. Cannot create, delete, or assign capabilities to users.

Passwords - All subtabs

Tasks - All subtabs

Configure Audit

Configure the events and configuration groups audited in the system.

Configure - Audit Events subtab

Configure Certificates

Configure trusted certificates and CRLs.

Security - Certificates subtab

Control Active Sync Resource Administrator

Control Active Sync resource state (such as start, stop, and refresh)

Tasks - Find Tasks, All Tasks, Run Tasks

Resources - For Active Sync resources: Active Sync actions menu (all selections)

Create User

Assign resources and initiate user create requests. Does not include bulk operations

Accounts - List Accounts (Create only), Find Users subtabs

Tasks - All subtabs

Data Warehouse Administrator

Configure Data Exporter and run the Data Warehouse Exporter Launcher task.

Configure - Warehouse subtab

Data Warehouse Query

Configure and run forensic queries

Compliance / Forensic Query

Debug

Access and execute operations from the Identity Manager debug pages.

The Identity Manager debug pages cannot be accessed from the menu. To access the debug pages, type the following URL into your browser:

http://<AppServerHost>:<Port>/idm/
debug

Delete User

Delete Identity Manager user accounts; deprovision, unassign, and unlink resource accounts. Does not include bulk operations.

Accounts - List Accounts (Delete only), Find Users subtabs

Tasks - All subtabs

Delete IDM User

Delete Identity Manager user accounts. Does not include bulk operations.

Accounts - List Accounts (Delete only), Find Users subtabs

Tasks - All subtabs

Deprovision User

Delete and unlink existing resource accounts. Does not include bulk operations.

Accounts - List Accounts (Deprovision only), Find Users subtabs

Tasks - All subtabs

Disable User

Disable existing users and resource accounts. Does not include bulk operations

Accounts - List Accounts (Disable only), Find Users subtabs

Tasks - All subtabs

Enable User

Enable existing users and resource accounts. Does not include bulk operations

Accounts - List Accounts (Enable only), Find Users subtabs

Tasks - All subtabs

End User Administrator

View and modify the rights to object types specified in the End User capability and the End User Controlled Organizations rule.

NA

IDM Schema Configuration

View and configure the effective schema for Users or Roles using the Identity Manager configuration object IDM Schema Configuration.

NA

Import User

Import users from defined resources.

Accounts - Extract to File, Load from File, Load from Resource subtabs

Import/Export Administrator

Import and export all types of objects.

Configure - Import Exchange File subtab

IT Role Administrator

Create, edit, and delete IT Roles.

Tasks - Find Tasks, All Tasks, Run Tasks subtabs (synchronize roles)

Roles - All subtabs

Login Administrator

Edit the set of login modules for a given login interface.

Configure - Login subtab

Organization Administrator

Create, edit, and delete organizations.

Accounts - List Accounts subtab (Edit and create organizations and directory junctions, delete organizations only)

Organization Approver

Approve requests for new organizations.

Work Items - Approvals subtab

Organization Violation History Administrator

Create. modify, delete, and execute the Organization Violation History report.

Reports - Organization Violation History reports only

Password Administrator

Change and reset user and resource account passwords.

Accounts - List Accounts (list, change, and reset passwords only), Find Users subtabs

Passwords - All subtabs

Tasks - All subtabs

Password Administrator (Verification Required)

Change and reset user and resource account passwords following successful validation of the user's authentication question answers.

Accounts - List Accounts (list, change, and reset passwords only; verification required before action succeeds), Find Users subtabs

Passwords - All subtabs

Tasks - All subtabs

Policy Administrator

Create, edit, and delete Policies.

Configure - Policy subtab

Policy Summary Report Administrator

Create, modify, delete, and execute the Policy Summary Report.

Reports - Policy Summary reports only

Product Registration

Register an installation of Identity Manager with Sun Microsystems or create a local service tag.

Configure - Product Registration subtab

Reconcile Administrator

Edit reconciliation policies and control reconciliation tasks.

Server Tasks - All subtabs (View reconcile task).

Resources - List Resources subtab

Reconcile Report Administrator

Create, edit, delete, and run reconciliation reports.

Reports - Run Reports (Account Index report only), Manage Reports subtabs

Reconcile Request Administrator

Manage reconciliation requests.

Tasks - All subtabs

Resources - List Resources subtab (list and reconciliation features only)

Remedy Integration Administrator

Modify Remedy integration configuration.

Tasks - All subtabs (view tasks, run role synchronization)

Configure - Remedy Integration subtab

Rename User

Rename existing users and resource accounts.

Accounts - List Accounts subtab (list all accounts in scope, rename users)

Report Administrator

Configure audit settings and run all report types.

Tasks - All subtabs (view tasks, run role synchronization)

Reports - All subtabs

Reset Password Administrator

Reset user and resource account passwords.

Accounts - List Accounts, Find Users subtabs (Reset Password only)

Passwords - All subtabs

Tasks - All subtabs. Export Password Scan task only (from Run Tasks subtab)

Reset Password Administrator (Verification Required)

Reset user and resource account passwords following successful validation of the user's authentication question answers.

Accounts - List Accounts, Find Users subtabs (Reset Password only; verification required before action succeeds)

Passwords - All subtabs

Tasks - All subtabs. Export Password Scan task only (from Run Tasks subtab)

Reset Resource Password Administrator

Reset resource administrator account passwords.

Tasks - Find Tasks, All Tasks, Run Tasks subtabs

Resources - List Resources subtab. Reset resource password only (from Manage Connection
-->Reset Password
in the actions menu)

Resource Administrator

Create, modify, and delete resources.

Reports - Resource user report, resource group report returns error on out-of-scope resources.

Resources - List Resources subtab (edit global policy, edit parameters, resource groups. Cannot manage connection or resource objects).

Resource Approver

Approve resource assignments

Work Items - Approvals subtab

Resource Group Administrator

Create, edit, and delete resource groups.

Resources - List Resource Groups subtab

Resource Object Administrator

Create, modify, and delete resource objects.

Tasks - Find Tasks, All Tasks, Run Tasks subtabs (view tasks involving resource objects).

Resources - List Resources subtab (list and manage resource objects only)

Resource Password Administrator

Change and reset resource proxy account passwords.

Tasks - Find Tasks, All Tasks, Run Tasks subtabs

Resources - List Resources subtab. Change resource password only (from Manage Connection-->Change Password in the actions menu)

Resource Report Administrator

Create, edit, delete, and run resource reports.

Reports - All subtabs (resource reports only)

Resource Violation History Administrator

Create. modify, delete, and execute the Resource Violation History report.

Reports - Resource Violation History reports only

Risk Analysis Administrator

Create, edit, delete, and run risk analysis.

Risk Analysis - All subtabs

Role Administrator

Create, modify, and delete roles.

Tasks - Find Tasks, All Tasks, Run Tasks subtabs (synchronize roles)

Roles - All subtabs

Role Approver

Approve role assignments

Work Items - Approvals subtab

Role Report Administrator

Create, edit, delete, and run resource reports.

Reports - Role reports only

Run Access Review Detail Report

Run the Access Review Detail Report

Reports - Access Review Detail Report only

Run Access Review Summary Report

Run the Access Review Summary Report

Reports - Access Review Summary Report only

Run Admin Report

Run administrator reports.

Reports - Admin reports only

Run Audit Policy Scan Administrator

Run and manage the Audit Policy Scan Report

Reports - Audit Policy Scan report only

Run Audit Policy Scan Report

Run the Audit Policy Scan Report.

Reports - Audit Policy Scan reports only

Run Audit Report

Run audit reports.

Reports - AuditLog and Usage reports only

Run Audited Attribute Report

Execute the Audited Attribute Report.

Reports - Audited Attribute reports only

Reports > View Dashboards

Run Auditor Report

Run any Auditor Report.

Reports - any auditor report

Reports > View Dashboards

Run AuditLog Report

Execute the AuditLog Report.

Reports - AuditLog reports only

Run AuditPolicy Violation History

Execute the Organization Violation History report.

Reports - AuditPolicy Violation History reports only

Reports > View Dashboards

Run Policy Summary Report

Execute the Policy Summary Report.

Reports - Policy Summary reports only

Run Organization Violation History

Execute the Organization Violation History report.

Reports - Organization Violation History reports only

Reports > View Dashboards

Run Reconcile Report

Run reconciliation reports.

Reports - AuditLog and Usage reports only

Run Resource Report

Run resource reports.

Reports - AuditLog and Usage reports only

Run Resource Violation History

Execute the Resource Violation History report.

Reports - Resource Violation History reports only

Run Risk Analysis

Run risk analysis.

Reports - Run Risk Analysis, View Risk Analysis subtabs

Run Role Report

Run role reports.

Reports - Role reports only

Run Separation of Duties Report

Run a Separation of Duties Report

Reports - Separation of Duties Report only

Reports > View Dashboards

Run Task Report

Run task reports.

Reports - Task reports only

Run User Access Report

Execute the Detailed User Report.

Reports - User Access reports only

Reports > View Dashboards

Run User Report

Run user reports.

Reports - User reports only

Run Violation Summary Report

Execute the Violation Summary report.

Reports - Violation Summary reports only

Reports > View Dashboards

Security Administrator

Create users with capabilities; manage encryption keys, login configuration, and policies.

Accounts - List Accounts (delete, create, update, edit, change and edit passwords), Find Users subtabs (audit report)

Passwords - All subtabs

Tasks - Find Tasks, All Tasks, Run Tasks subtabs

Reports - All subtabs

Resources - List Resources (list and control resource objects)

Security - Policies, Login subtabs

Separation of Duties Report Administrator

Create, edit, run, and delete a Separation of Duties Report.

Reports - all actions for Separation of Duties Report only

Service Provider Admin Role

Manage Service Provider Admin Roles and the associated rules.

Security - Admin Roles tab

Service Provider Administrator

Create, edit, and manage service provider users and transactions; configure the transaction database and tracked events.

Accounts - Manage Service Provider Users subtab

Server Tasks > Service Provider Transactions tab

Reports > View Dashboards tab

Reports > Dashboard Configuration tab

Service Provider - all subtabs

Service Provider Create User

Create user accounts for service provider (extranet) users.

Accounts - Manage Service Provider Users subtab

Service Provider Delete User

Delete a service provider user account.

Accounts - Manage Service Provider Users subtab

Service Provider Update User

Update a service provider user account.

Accounts - Manage Service Provider Users subtab

Service Provider User Administrator

Manage service provider (extranet) users.

Accounts > Manage Service Provider Users - all subtabs

Service Provider View User

View service provider (extranet) user account information.

Accounts - Manage Service Provider Users subtab

SPML Access

Allows access to the Service Provisioning Markup Language (SPML) features in Identity Manager.

Security - Capabilities subtab

Task Report Administrator

Create, edit, delete, and run task reports.

Reports - Task Report only.

Unassign User

Unassign and unlink existing resource accounts. Does not include bulk operations.

Accounts - List Accounts (Unassign only), Find Users subtabs

Tasks - All subtabs

Unlink User

Unlink existing resource accounts. Does not include bulk operations.

Accounts - List Accounts (Unlink only), Find Users subtabs

Tasks - All subtabs

Unlock User

Unlock existing user’s resource accounts that support unlock. Does not include bulk operations.

Accounts - List Accounts (Unlock only), Find Users subtabs

Tasks - Find Tasks, All Tasks, Run Tasks subtabs

Update User

Edit existing users and initiate user update requests.

Accounts - Edit and update users

Tasks - Manage existing tasks (from the All Tasks subtab)

User Access Report Administrator

Create, run, edit, and delete a User Access Report

Reports - User Access Report only

Reports > View Dashboards

User Account Administrator

All operations on users.

Accounts - List Accounts, Find Users, Extract to File, Load from File, Load from Resource subtabs. Cannot assign user capabilities (Security form tab on List Accounts subtab).

Tasks - Find Tasks, All Tasks, Run Tasks subtabs

User Report Administrator

Create, edit, delete, and run user reports.

Reports - Run user reports.

View User

View individual user details.

Accounts - Select users from the list to view individual user account information. No change actions allowed.

Violation Summary Report Administrator

Create. modify, delete, and execute the Violation Summary report.

Reports - Violation Summary reports only

Reports > View Dashboards

Waveset Administrator

Perform system-wide tasks, such as modification of system configuration objects.

Server Tasks - All subtabs. Synchronize roles, edit source adapter template, and schedule reports

Reports - All subtabs

Resources - List Resources (list only; no change actions allowed)

Configure - Audit, Email Templates, Form and Process Mappings, and Servers subtabs


Functional Capabilities Definitions

Functional capabilities consist of task-based capabilities, as well as other functional capabilities.

Account Administrator
Admin Role Administrator
Auditor Administrator
Auditor Report Administrator
Auditor View User
Bulk Account Administrator
Bulk Change Account Administrator
Bulk Resource Administrator
Bulk Resource Password Administrator
Capability Administrator
Change Account Administrator
Configure Certificates
Data Warehouse Administrator
Data Warehouse Query
Debug
End User Administrator
IDM Schema Configuration
Import/Export Administrator
License Administrator
Login Administrator
Meta View Administrator
Organization Administrator
Password Administrator (Verification Required)
Policy Administrator
Product Registration
Reconcile Administrator
Remedy Integration Administrator
Report Administrator
Resource Administrator
Resource Object Administrator
Resource Password Administrator
Role Administrator
Security Administrator
Service Provider Administrator
Service Provider Admin Role Administrator
Waveset Administrator



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