1 About the Connector

Oracle Identity Manager automates access rights management, security, and provisioning of IT resources. Oracle Identity Manager connectors are used to integrate Oracle Identity Manager with third-party applications. The connector for Oracle e-Business Employee Reconciliation is used to integrate Oracle Identity Manager with Oracle e-Business Employee Reconciliation.

Note:

Oracle Identity Manager connectors were referred to as resource adapters prior to the acquisition of Thor Technologies by Oracle.

This chapter contains the following sections:

Supported Functionality
Multilanguage Support
Reconciliation Module
Files and Directories That Comprise the Connector
Determining the Release Number of the Connector

Supported Functionality

The following table lists the functions that are available with this connector.

Function	Type	Description
Reconcile New User	Reconciliation	Creates an Oracle Identity Manager user in trusted mode
Reconcile Delete User	Reconciliation	Deletes an Oracle Identity Manager user account, in both trusted and nontrusted mode
Reconcile Updated User	Reconciliation	Updates an Oracle Identity Manager user record during reconciliation, in both trusted and nontrusted mode

Multilanguage Support

This release of the connector supports the following languages:

English
Brazilian Portuguese
French
German
Italian
Korean
Simplified Chinese
Spanish
Traditional Chinese

Reconciliation Module

This section discusses the elements that the reconciliation module extracts from the target system to construct reconciliation event records.

Reconciliation can be divided into the following types:

Lookup Fields Reconciliation
Employee Reconciliation

Lookup Fields Reconciliation

Lookup fields reconciliation involves reconciling the Person ID lookup field.

Employee Reconciliation

Employee reconciliation involves reconciling the following fields:

First Name
email
PersonId
Middle Name
Last Name
Dept
SSN
Title
Location
Manager
City
PostalCode
Country
Telno
EmployeeNumber
ManagerId

Files and Directories That Comprise the Connector

The files and directories that comprise this connector are compressed in the following directory on the installation media:

Enterprise Applications\Oracle e-Business\Oracle e-Business Employee Reconciliation

These files and directories are listed in the following table.

File in the Installation Media Directory	Description
lib\ScheduleTask\xlReconOraHREmp.jar	This JAR file contains the class files that are required for reconciliation.
Files in the `resources` directory	Each of these resource bundle files contains language-specific information that is used by the connector. Note: A resource bundle is a file containing localized versions of the text strings that are displayed on the user interface of Oracle Identity Manager. These text strings include GUI element labels and messages displayed on the Administrative and User Console.
xml\oracleHRResAdp.xml	This XML file contains definitions for the following components of the connector: IT resource type Custom process form Resource object Reconciliation process Lookup definitions

The "Step 3: Copying the Connector Files and External Code" section provides instructions to copy these files into the required directories.

Determining the Release Number of the Connector

To determine the release number of the connector that you have deployed:

Extract the contents of the xlReconOralHREmp.jar file. For a connector that has been deployed, this file is in the following directory:
```
OIM_home\xellerate\JavaTasks
```
Open the manifest.mf file in a text editor. The manifest.mf file is one of the files bundled inside the xlReconOralHREmp.jar file.

In the manifest.mf file, the release number of the connector is displayed as the value of the Version property.