What's New in the Oracle Identity Manager Connector for Sun Java System Directory?

This chapter provides an overview of the updates made to the software and documentation for the Sun Java System Directory 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 updates made to this release of the connector software:

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 sections:

• Enabling Provisioning of Users in Organizations and Organizational Units

Provisioning of Organizational Units, Groups, and Roles

Functionality for provisioning of organizational units, groups, and roles is discussed in the following section:

• Provisioning Organizational Units, Groups, and Roles

  The ldapOrgUnitObjectClass and ldapGroupObjectClass attributes have been added to the list of Oracle Identity Manager attribute names.

Reconciliation of Organizations, Organizational Units, Groups, and Roles

In this release of the connector, while configuring the lookup fields reconciliation scheduled task, you can specify the entity for which you want to configure reconciliation: groups, roles, or organizations and organizational units. The "Lookup Fields Reconciliation Scheduled Task" section, describes the attributes that you use to specify the entity to be configured for reconciliation.

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 user records in batches. The scheduled task attributes are discussed in the following sections:

• User Reconciliation Scheduled Task

• Batched Reconciliation

• Testing Batched Reconciliation

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.

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.

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:

• In the "Reconciled Xellerate User Fields" section, the Password field has been removed from the list of fields that are reconciled during trusted source reconciliation.

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

• Some of the content from Chapter 2 of the earlier release of this guide has been moved to Chapter 3.