Resource Actions (Sun Identity Manager 8.1 Resources Reference)

Sun Identity Manager 8.1 Resources Reference

Resource Actions

The Shell Script adapter allows you to create a set of actions that perform basic provisioning functions such as creating, updating, deleting, and retrieving user accounts. Each of these actions is defined in a shell script. The Shell Script adapter works by running resource actions as a UNIX resource adapter. To run resource actions, this adapter must

Run its create, delete, and update operations under its /tmp directory.
Have the ability to run commands such as mkdir, umask, touch, cat, chmod, rm - f, rmdir, find, set, and use operators such as <, <<, >, >>.

The adapter supports the provisioning actions listed in the following table:

Action	Purpose	Required?
create	Creates a new user.	No, but if not provided, users cannot be created.
delete	Deletes an existing user.	No, but if not provided, users cannot be deleted.
getAllUsers	Gets information about all users on the resource	No, but if not provided, operations that depend on account iteration, such as reconciliation and Load From Resource will not be available.
getUser	Fetches attributes for an existing user.	Yes.
update	Updates attributes for an existing user.	No, but if not provided, users cannot be updated.

The $WSHOME/sample/ShellScript directory contains a set of sample resource action definitions that could be used to provision users to a theoretical shell script-based host application. You must customize these definitions to your environment.

For general information about resource actions, see Chapter 50, Adding Actions to Resources.