What's New in the Oracle Identity Manager Connector for Novell eDirectory?

This chapter provides an overview of the updates made to the software and documentation for the Novell eDirectory connector in release 9.0.4 of the Oracle Identity Manager connector pack.

See Also:

The 9.0.3 release of this guide for information about updates that were new for the 9.0.3 release

The updates discussed in this chapter are divided into the following categories:

• Software Updates

  These include updates made to the connector software.

• Documentation-Specific Updates

  These include major changes made to the connector documentation. These changes are not related to software updates.

See Also:

Oracle Identity Manager Release Notes

Software Updates

This section discusses the following software updates implemented in this release of the connector.

Enabling Provisioning of Users in Organizations and Organizational Units

Functionality for enabling provisioning of users in organizations and organizational units is discussed in the following section:

• Enabling Provisioning of Users in Organizations and Organizational Units

Functionality for Provisioning of Organizational Units, Groups, and Roles

From this release onward, the connector supports the provisioning of organizational units, groups, and roles. This functionality is discussed in the following sections:

• In the "Supported Functionality" section, the following functions have been added:

  • Create OU

  • Change OU Name

  • Delete OU

  • Move OU

  • Create eDirectory Group

  • Delete eDirectory Group

  • New Group Name Updated

  • Create eDirectory Role

  • Delete eDirectory Role

  • New Role Name Updated

• In the "Compiling Adapters" section, adapters to handle the new functions have been added.

• In Appendix A, the ldapOrgUnitObjectClass attribute has been added to the list of Oracle Identity Manager attributes.

• Provisioning Organizational Units, Groups, and Roles

Reconciliation of Organizations, Organizational Units, Groups, and Roles

For reconciliation of lookup fields, you need to specify values for the lookup fields scheduled task attributes. In this release of the connector, you can specify values for the lookup fields scheduled task attributes for reconciliation of organizations, organizational units, groups, and roles. These attribute values are listed in the "Lookup Fields Reconciliation Scheduled Task" section.

Partial Reconciliation

The CustomizedReconQuery parameter has been added to the IT resource definition. You can use this parameter to customize the query that the reconciliation module uses to determine the records to be retrieved from the target system. The CustomizedReconQuery parameter is explained in the following sections:

• Defining IT Resources

• Partial Reconciliation

• Testing Partial Reconciliation

Batched Reconciliation

In this release of the connector, the StartRecord, BatchSize, and NumberofBatches attributes have been added to the reconciliation scheduled task definition. By specifying values for these attributes, you can reconcile users in various batches. The scheduled task attributes are discussed in the following sections:

• User Reconciliation Scheduled Task

• Batched Reconciliation

• Testing Batched Reconciliation

Changes in the Supported Target Systems List

In the "Step 1: Verifying Deployment Requirements" section, the information on supported target system host platform has been modified. This release of the connector is not dependent on any target system host platform.

Enabling Logging

By following the instructions in the "Enabling Logging" section, you can configure the generation of log information that is specific to the target system.

Stopping Reconciliation

This release of the connector supports the stopping of reconciliation. This feature is discussed in the following section:

• Stopping Reconciliation

Documentation-Specific Updates

The following documentation-specific updates have been made in this release of the guide:

• Instructions in the "Determining the Release Number of the Connector" section have been revised.

• The term "troubleshooting utility" has been replaced with "testing utility."

• In the "Lookup Fields Reconciliation" section, the domain scope data on the target system has been added to the list of reconciled lookup fields. Corresponding changes have been made in the "Lookup Fields Reconciliation Scheduled Task" section.