Importing Security Configuration from an External Source

The product provides support for importing security information from an external source. In all cases, the product uses a special user BO F1–IDMUser to create the user and the recommendation is to take advantage of the Template Userfunctionality. More information about the out of the box support for using this feature is described in the related links.

• If your organization uses Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), you can import your existing LDAP users and groups into the system. Once imported, all user and group functions are available. You can import a user group, or a single user. You can resynchronize your LDAP users and groups at any time.

  Fastpath: For more information refer to LDAP Integration.

• The system provides an integration with Oracle Identity Manager. When a user is created in the identity manager product, its information can automatically be interfaced to the product. Once the user is successfully created in the system, all functions are available.

  Fastpath: For more information refer to Oracle Identity Manager Integration.

• The system provides a web service with add, update and get operations that follow the System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM) specification for provisioning users.

  Fastpath: For more information refer to Provision Users with SCIM Open Standard.