1. Configuring the Box Application
  2. Using the Box Connector

5 Using the Box Connector

You can use the connector for performing reconciliation and provisioning operations after configuring your application to meet your requirements.

5.1 Configuring Reconciliation

You can configure the connector to specify the type of reconciliation and its schedule.

This section discusses the following topics related to configuring reconciliation:

5.1.1 Performing Full Reconciliation

Full reconciliation involves reconciling all existing user records from the target system into Oracle Identity Governance. After you create the application, you must first perform full reconciliation.

To perform a full reconciliation run, remove (delete) any value currently assigned to the Filter attribute of the Full User Reconciliation job. See Reconciliation Jobs for information about this reconciliation job.

During a full reconciliation run, if you provide both batching parameters and filters, the connector processes the data in batches. Then, filters are applied to the processed data.

5.1.2 Performing Limited Reconciliation

You can perform limited reconciliation by creating filters for the reconciliation module, and reconcile records from the target system based on a specified filter criterion.

By default, all target system records are reconciled during the current reconciliation run. You can customize this process by specifying the subset of target system records that must be reconciled.

The scheduled job provides a Filter Suffix parameter that allows you to use any of the Box resource attributes to filter the target system records. You can perform limited reconciliation by creating filters for the reconciliation module. For detailed information about the various filter syntax that are supported, refer to the Box documentation.

For the Filter Suffix attribute on the scheduled job, following are sample values that can be provided:

  • ?filter_term=sand

    In the above sample, sand is specified after the ?filter_term= syntax in the filter suffix attribute. This returns all users starting with the term sand in either the name or the login values.

    Similarly, any value specified after the ?filter_term= syntax returns users whose name or login begins with the string value specified in the filter syntax field.

  • /181216415

    In the above sample, 181216415 is specified after the / syntax in the filter suffix attribute. This returns all users records whose UID matches 181216415.

    Similarly, any value specified after the / syntax returns users whose UID attributes which is equal to the string specified in the filter syntax field.

5.2 Configuring Reconciliation Jobs

Configure reconciliation jobs to perform reconciliation runs that check for new information on your target system periodically and replicates the data in Oracle Identity Governance.

You can apply this procedure to configure the reconciliation jobs for users and entitlements.

To configure a reconciliation job:
  1. Log in to Identity System Administration.
  2. In the left pane, under System Management, click Scheduler.
  3. Search for and open the scheduled job as follows:
    1. In the Search field, enter the name of the scheduled job as the search criterion. Alternatively, you can click Advanced Search and specify the search criterion.
    2. In the search results table on the left pane, click the scheduled job in the Job Name column.
  4. On the Job Details tab, you can modify the parameters of the scheduled task:
    • Retries: Enter an integer value in this field. This number represents the number of times the scheduler tries to start the job before assigning the Stopped status to the job.
    • Schedule Type: Depending on the frequency at which you want the job to run, select the appropriate schedule type. See Creating Jobs in Oracle Fusion Middleware Administering Oracle Identity Governance.

    In addition to modifying the job details, you can enable or disable a job.

  5. On the Job Details tab, in the Parameters region, specify values for the attributes of the scheduled task.

    Note:

    Values (either default or user-defined) must be assigned to all the attributes. If even a single attribute value is left empty, then reconciliation is not performed.

  6. Click Apply to save the changes.

    Note:

    You can use the Scheduler Status page in Identity System Administration to either start, stop, or reinitialize the scheduler.

5.3 Configuring Provisioning

You can configure the provisioning operation for the Box connector.

5.3.1 Guidelines on Performing Provisioning Operations

These are the guidelines that you must apply while performing provisioning operations.

For a Create User provisioning operation, you must specify a value for the Name and Login fields. For example for the Name field, enter John Doe and for Login field, enter jdoe@example.com.

5.3.2 Performing Provisioning Operations

You create a new user in Identity Self Service by using the Create User page. You provision or request for accounts on the Accounts tab of the User Details page.

To perform provisioning operations in Oracle Identity Governance:

  1. Log in to Identity Self Service.
  2. Create a user as follows:
    1. In Identity Self Service, click Manage. The Home tab displays the different Manage option. Click Users. The Manage Users page is displayed.
    2. From the Actions menu, select Create. Alternatively, you can click Create on the toolbar. The Create User page is displayed with input fields for user profile attributes.
    3. Enter details of the user in the Create User page.
  3. On the Account tab, click Request Accounts.
  4. In the Catalog page, search for and add to cart the application instance for the connector that you configured earlier, and then click Checkout.
  5. Specify value for fields in the application form and then click Ready to Submit.
  6. Click Submit.

See Also:

Creating a User in Oracle Fusion Middleware Performing Self Service Tasks with Oracle Identity Governance for details about the fields on the Create User page

5.4 Uninstalling the Connector

Uninstalling the connector deletes all the account-related data associated with its resource objects.

If you want to uninstall the connector for any reason, then run the Uninstall Connector utility. Before you run this utility, ensure that you set values for ObjectType and ObjectValues properties in the ConnectorUninstall.properties file. For example, if you want to delete resource objects, scheduled tasks, and scheduled jobs associated with the connector, then enter "ResourceObject", "ScheduleTask", "ScheduleJob" as the value of the ObjectType property and a semicolon-separated list of object values corresponding to your connector as the value of the ObjectValues property.

For example: BOX User; BOX Group

Note:

If you set values for the ConnectorName and Release properties along with the ObjectType and ObjectValue properties, then the deletion of objects listed in the ObjectValues property is performed by the utility and the Connector information is skipped.

For more information, see Uninstalling Connectors in Oracle Fusion Middleware Administering Oracle Identity Governance.