1. Configuring the SAP S/4 HANA Cloud Application
  2. Using the Connector

5 Using the Connector

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

Topics

This chapter discusses the following topics:

5.1 Configuring Reconciliation

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

Reconciliation involves duplicating in Oracle Identity Governance the creation of and modifications to user accounts on the target system. This section provides information on 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, ensure that no value is specified for the Filter attribute.

5.1.2 Performing Batched Reconciliation

You can perform batched reconciliation to reconcile a specific number of records from the target system into Oracle Identity Governance.

By default, all target system records that are added or modified after the last reconciliation run are reconciled during the current reconciliation run. Depending on the number of records to be reconciled, this process may require a large amount of time. In addition, if the connection breaks during reconciliation, then the process would take longer to complete.

You can configure batched reconciliation to avoid such problems.

To configure batched reconciliation, you must specify a value for the batch-size parameter of the Basic Settings section. Use this attribute to specify the number of records that must be included in each batch. By default, this value is 10 and SAP recommends to use value between 10-100.

After you configure batched reconciliation, if reconciliation fails during a batched reconciliation run, then you only need to rerun the scheduled task without changing the values of the task parameter.

5.1.3 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 that are added or modified after the last reconciliation run are reconciled during the current reconciliation run. You can customize this process by specifying the subset of added or modified target system records that must be reconciled. The connector provides a Filter parameter that allows you to use any of the SAP resource attributes to filter the target system records.

The following are the list of supported filters:

  1. BusinessPartnerRoleCodeInterval
  2. FirstNameInterval
  3. EmailAddressInterval
  4. LastNameInterval
  5. PersonExternalIDInterval
  6. PersonIDInterval
  7. UserIDInterval
  8. UserNameInterval

The syntax for this parameter is as follows:

Filter Account using Username

For example, EQ("UserNameInterval","NEHA")

Here any user with Username NEHA is reconciled.

Remaining Attributes filter parameters:

EQ("FirstNameInterval","NEHA")

EQ("LastNameInterval","Chandra")

EQ("BusinessPartnerRoleCodeInterval","BUP003")

EQ("EmailAddressInterval","nikhil@mail.com")

EQ("PersonExternalIDInterval","EE1912903_NIKHIL")

Other than EQUAL filter will support below Operation

Table 5-1 SAP S/4HANA Cloud connector

Operation Syntax Example
EQUAL EQ(“<filterName>”,<value>) EQ("BusinessPartnerRoleCodeInterval","BUP003")
BETWEEN BT(“<filtername>”,”<from value>”,”<to value>”) BT("BusinessPartnerRoleCodeInterval","BUP003","BUP003")
GREATER EQUAL GE(“<filtername>”,”<from value>”,”[to value]”) GE("BusinessPartnerRoleCodeInterval","BUP003")
GREATER THAN GT(“<filtername>”,”<from value>”,”[to value]”) GT("BusinessPartnerRoleCodeInterval","BUP003")
LESS EQUAL LE(“<filtername>”,”<from value>”,”[to value]”) LE("BusinessPartnerRoleCodeInterval","BUP003")
LESS THAN LT(“<filtername>”,”<from value>”,”[to value]”) LT("BusinessPartnerRoleCodeInterval","BUP003")

Note:

SAP S/4HANA Cloud connector does not support any other filters.

<> - indicates value is required

[ ] – indicates optional

BusinessPartnerRoleCodeInterval filter only supports BUP003 (Employee)

For more details on S4/HANA Cloud filters, to Business User - Read under APIs for Setting Up Your SAP S/4HANA Cloud" in SAP Help Portal.

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 Configuration, 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 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.

Below are examples to uninstall ResourceObjects and ScheduleJobs respectively:

  • ObjectType=ResourceObject

    ObjectValues=<Application Name>

  • ObjectType= ScheduleJob

    ObjectValues= <Application Name>Workday Target User Reconciliation

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 a Connector in Oracle Fusion Middleware Administering Oracle Identity Governance.