11.9 Managing the Role Service Driver

On occasion, you might want to change the settings for the Role Service driver or update the indexes that it uses to display roles in the identity applications.

11.9.1 Configuring the Role and Resource Service Driver Settings

After creating the Role and Resource Service driver at installation time, you can optionally modify some of the driver configuration settings in iManager.

In iManager, click Identity Manager>Identity Manager Overview.
Browse to the driver set where the driver exists, then click Search.
Click the upper-right corner of the Role Service driver icon, then click Edit Properties.
Click on the Driver Configuration tab.
Scroll down to the Driver Settings section of the page.
Make any changes you would like to the settings, and click OK to commit your changes.

You can modify the following standard driver settings (listed under User Application/Workflow Connection on the Driver Configuration page), which get their initial values at installation time:

Table 11-1 Standard Driver Settings

Option	Description
User Application Driver DN	The distinguished name of the User Application driver object that is hosting the role system. Use the eDirectory format, such as UserApplication.driverset.org, or browse to find the driver object. This is a required field.
User Application URL	The URL used to connect to the User Application in order to start Approval Workflows. This is a required field.
User Application Identity	The distinguished name of the object used to authenticate to the User Application in order to start Approval Workflows. This needs to a user who has been assigned as a Provisioning Administrator for the User Application. Use the eDirectory format, such as admin.department.org, or browse to find the user. The identity needs to be entered in LDAP format (for example, cn=admin,ou=department,o=org), rather than dot format. Note that this is different from the format required at driver install time, where dot notation is expected. This is a required field.
User Application Password	Password of the account specified in the User Application Identity field. The password is used to authenticate to the User Application in order to start approval workflows. This is a required field.
Reenter User Application Password	Re-enter the password of the account specified in the User Application Identity field.

In addition, you can modify the following additional settings (listed under Miscellaneous on the Driver Configuration page) to customize the behavior of the Role Service driver:

Table 11-2 Additional Settings for Customizing the Role Service Driver

Option	Description
Number of days before processing removed request objects	Specifies the number of days the driver should wait before cleaning up request objects that have finished processing. This value determines how long you are able to track the status of requests that have been fulfilled.
Frequency of reevaluation of dynamic and nested groups (in minutes)	Specifies the number of minutes the driver should wait before reevaluating dynamic and nested groups. This value determines the timeliness of updates to dynamic and nested groups used by the User Application. In addition, this value can have an impact on performance. Therefore, before specifying a value for this option, you need to weigh the performance cost against the benefit of having up-to-date information in the User Application.
Generate audit events	Determines whether audit events are generated by the driver. For details on audit configuration, see Section 7.0, Setting Up Logging in the Identity Applications.

Option

Description

Number of days before processing removed request objects

Specifies the number of days the driver should wait before cleaning up request objects that have finished processing. This value determines how long you are able to track the status of requests that have been fulfilled.

Frequency of reevaluation of dynamic and nested groups (in minutes)

Specifies the number of minutes the driver should wait before reevaluating dynamic and nested groups. This value determines the timeliness of updates to dynamic and nested groups used by the User Application. In addition, this value can have an impact on performance. Therefore, before specifying a value for this option, you need to weigh the performance cost against the benefit of having up-to-date information in the User Application.

Generate audit events

Determines whether audit events are generated by the driver.

For details on audit configuration, see Section 7.0, Setting Up Logging in the Identity Applications.

11.9.2 Indexing for the Role Service Driver

The Role Service driver s relevant indexes in eDirectory for roles definitions. If you upload a large number of roles, the indexing of these values may take some time. You can monitor these indexes under Index Management in iManager.

Here is the list of Index Names for the indexes d for the Role Service driver:

nrf(Object Class)
nrf(nrfMemberOf)
nrf(nrfStatus)
nrf(nrfStartDate)
nrf(nrfNextExpiration)
nrf(nrfParentRoles)
nrf(nrfChildRoles)
nrf(nrfCategory)
nrf(nrfRoleCategoryKey)
nrf(nrfLocalizedNames)
nrf(nrfLocalizedDescrs)
nrf(nrfRoles)