Sun Identity Manager Deployment Guide

Exportable Data Types

Data Exporter can export both persistent and transient data. Persistent refers to the data Identity Manager stores in the repository. Transient data is data that is either not stored in the Identity Manager repository by default, or data that has a lifecycle that precludes periodic fetching of changed records. Some types of data are both transient and persistent, such as Task Instances and WorkItems. These data types are considered transient because they are deleted by Identity Manager at times that are not externally predictable.

Identity Manager exports the following data types.

Table 5–1 Supported Data Types


Data Type	Persistence	Description
Account	Persistent	Record containing the linkage between a User and a ResourceAccount
AdminGroup	Persistent	A group of IdentityManager permissions available on all ObjectGroups
AdminRole	Persistent	The permissions assigned to one or more ObjectGroups
AuditPolicy	Persistent	A collection of rules evaluated against an IdentityManager object to determine complicance to a business policy
ComplianceViolation	Persistent	Tracks a User's non-compliance with an AuditPolicy
Entitlement	Persistent	A record containing the list of attestations for a specific User
LogRecord	Persistent	A record containing a single audit record
ObjectGroup	Persistent	A security container that is modeled as an organization
Resource	Persistent	A system/application on which accounts are provisioned
ResourceAccount	Transient	A set of attributes that comprise an account on a specific Resource
Role	Persistent	A logical container for access
Rule	Persistent	A block of logic that can be executed by Identity Manager
TaskInstance	Transient and persistent	A record indicating an executing or completed process
User	Persistent	A logical user that includes zero or more accounts
WorkflowActivity	Transient	A single activity of an Identity Manager workflow
WorkItem	Transient and persistent	A manual action from an Identity Manager workflow

Data Exporter allows you to define strategies for exporting each type of data, depending on the exact needs of the warehouse. For example, some data types may need to export every change to an object while other data types may be satisfied with exporting at a fixed interval, potentially skipping intermediate changes to the data.

You can select which types will be exported. Once a type is selected, all new and modified instances of that type will be exported. Persistent data types can also be configured to export deleted objects.