Overview of the IIFP User Interface
Below is a quick overview of the main screens in the
IIFP\MIIS Identity Manager console.? The screen shots below were taken from a
system that already had two MAs configured and run.? After a fresh install, the
content of these screens will be empty.?
A. Launch the
IIFP UI
1. Under
All Programs\Identity Integration Feature Pack, select Identity
Manager
B. Operations
This screen displays a log of all MA
runs or jobs that have occurred to date.? Statistics for each step and the target
for the MA is shown.
From this screen you can re-run
previous jobs, stop jobs that are currently running, clear the job history, or
save the job history to a file.
C. Management
Agents
This screen shows all MAs that have
been created.? Statistics, flow errors, and individual connectors (or objects)
that have (Connectors with Flow Updates) or have not (Connectors without Flow
Updates) been updated are shown.
This is the primary screen used to
manage IIFP/MIIS.
D. Metaverse
Designer
This displays the metaverse schema
stored in SQL.? You can add, delete, and modify object types and their
attributes from this screen.? In addition, you can control which attributes are
indexed, which can help increase performance of IIFP/MIIS.? You can also
control if object types are automatically removed from the metaverse, based on
a few choices; one of which is a rules extension which will use the code you
write to define the deletion logic.
E. Metaverse
Search
This allows you to search all connectors
(objects) and their attributes that are currently stored in the metaverse
(SQL).
You can also view which MA created the
connectors in the metaverse and what other connectors they may be linked to.
F. Joiner
This last screen is used to manually
join or link two or more connectors (objects) created in the metaverse by two
or more connectors.? In most cases, connectors will be joined based on rules
defined in the MA.
Conclusion
Using the steps covered above, IIFP can be installed in
about 30 minutes.? The configuration of IIFP for your environment can take much
longer depending on your directory synchronization and metadirectory
requirements.? In the next part of this article series I will cover the steps
needed to create MAs to synchronize attributes between objects in two different
domains.? The objects will be ?linked? by their samAccountName.? The final part
of the series will cover creating a rules extension that will be used to create
objects in the target domain, if they don?t already exist.
