Using the Identity Management

Use this to perform identity management. It is a single point of access to manage identity functions and view administrative features such as user-role mapping, function mapping and miscellaneous configuration details.

To access the Identity Management, your Administrator must have granted you administrative privileges by mapping your user account to the Identity Administrator and Identity Authorizer user groups. These user groups are seeded in IDCS. Using Identity Management, Administrators can manage fine-grained and coarse-grained entitlements. Authorizers can authorize the entitlement mappings. The components are as follows:

1. Users: A user is a person who has access to and can perform specific actions based on the user group or groups they are mapped to. Before you can map a user to a user group, your administrator must have created and authorised the user. After the user is authorised, they are added in the Users Summary page. Click Users to view the list of available users in the page.
2. Groups: Groups are a set of users that can perform specific activities. For example, the administrator role performs administrative activities. Any user who belongs to a specific user group can access the roles mapped to that user group. Click Add to add a user group or click Groups to view the list of user groups in the Groups Summary page.
3. Roles: Roles are a set of functions grouped together and having specific privileges. Any user who belongs to a specific role can access functions mapped to the role. Click Add to add a role or click Roles to view the list of roles in the Roles Summary page.
4. Functions: Functions enable users to perform a specific activity. Any user who belongs to a specific function can access the folders mapped to the function. Click Functions to view the list of functions in the Functions Summary page.
   Only those user groups and roles which are authorized are displayed in the Groups Summary and Roles Summary, respectively.