From an installation perspective, there are two types of adapters:
Identity Manager adapters
Custom adapters
Identity Manager adapters do not require additional installation procedures. Use the following steps to display the resource on the actions menu on the Resource page:
From the Identity Manager Administrator Interface, click Resources, and then click Configure Types.
Select the appropriate options in the Identity Manager Resources section.
Click Save at the bottom of the page.
Custom adapters require additional installation steps. Typically, you must copy one or more jar files to the InstallDir\idm\WEB-INF\lib directory and add the adapter’s Java class to the list of adapters. The JAR files are usually available on the installation media, or through download from the Internet.
The following example from the DB2 resource adapter illustrates this procedure:
Copy the db2java.jar file to the InstallDir\idm\WEB-INF\lib directory.
From the Identity Manager Administrator interface, click Resources, and then click Configure Types.
Click Add Custom Resource near the bottom of the page.
Enter the full class name of the adapter in the bottom text box, such as com.waveset.adapter.DB2ResourceAdapter.
Click Save at the bottom of the page.
The following table lists the adapters that require jar files to be installed on the Identity Manager server.