A.2 Global Configuration Values

Global configuration values (GCVs) are values that can be used by the driver to control functionality. GCVs are defined on the driver or on the driver set. Driver set GCVs can be used by all drivers in the driver set. Driver GCVs can be used only by the driver on which they are defined.

The Active Directory driver includes several predefined GCVs. You can also add your own if you need additional ones as you implement policies in the driver.

To access the driver’s GCVs in iManager:

Click Identity Manager Administration tab to display the Identity Manager Administration page.
Open the driver set that contains the driver whose properties you want to edit:
1. In the Administration list, click Identity Manager Overview.
2. If the driver set is not listed on the Driver Sets tab, use the Search In field to search for and display the driver set.
3. Click the driver set to open the Driver Set Overview page.
Locate the Active Directory driver icon, click the upper right corner of the driver icon to display the Actions menu, then click Edit Properties.

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To add a GCV to the driver set, click Driver Set, then click Edit Driver Set properties.

To access the driver’s GCVs in Designer:

Open a project in the Modeler.
Right-click the Active Directory driver icon or line, then select Properties > Global Configuration Values.

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To add a GCV to the driver set, right-click the driver set icon , then click Properties > GCVs.

The global configuration values are organized as follows:

A.2.1 Configuration

The following GCVs contain configuration information for the Active Directory driver. They are divided into the following categories:

Synchronization Settings

Domain DNS Name: Specify the DNS name of the Active Directory domain managed by this driver.

Subscriber Channel Placement Type: Specify the type of placement for the Subscriber Channel. Select Flat to strictly place objects within the base container. Select Mirrored to hierarchically place objects within the base container. This is used to determine the Subscriber Channel Placement policies.

Active Directory User Container: Specify the container where user objects reside in Active Directory.

Publisher Channel Placement Type: Specify the type of placement for the Publisher Channel. Select Flat to strictly place objects within the base container. Select Mirrored to hierarchically place objects within the base container. This is used to determine the Publisher Channel Placement policies.

Name Mapping Policy

Show name mapping policy: Select show to display the global configuration values for the name mapping policy. Select hide to not have the global configuration values displayed.

The following GCVs are used in the name mapping policy. If the policy does not meet your needs, you can modify it by editing the UserNameMap policies in the Subscriber and Publisher Command Transformation policies.

Full Name Mapping: Select True to synchronize the Identity Vault user’s Full Name with the Active Directory object name and display name. This policy is useful when creating user accounts in Active Directory by using the Microsoft Management Console Users and Computers snap-in.

Logon Name Mapping: Select True to synchronize the Identity Vault user’s object name with the Active Directory Pre-Windows 2000 Logon Name (also known as the NT Logon Name and the sAMAccountName).

User Principal Name Mapping: Allows you to choose a method for managing the Active Directory Logon Name (also known as the userPrincipalName). userPrincipalName takes the form of an e-mail address, such as usere@domain.com. Although the driver can place any value into userPrincipalName, it is not useful as a logon name unless the domain is configured to accept the domain name used with the name.

Follow Active Directory e-mail address: Sets the userPrincipalName to the value of the Active Directory mail attribute. This option is useful when you want the user’s e-mail address to be used for authentication and Active Directory is authoritative for e-mail addresses.
Follow Identity Vault e-mail address: Sets the userPrincipalName to the value of the Identity Vault e-mail address attribute. This option is useful when you want the user’s e-mail address to be used for authentication and the Identity Vault is authoritative for e-mail addresses.
Follow Identity Vault name: This option is useful when you want to generate userPrincipalName from the user logon name plus a hard-coded string defined in the policy.
None: This option is useful when you do not want to control userPrincipalName or when you want to implement your own policy.

A.2.2 Password Synchronization

These GCVs enable password synchronization between the Identity Vault and the Active Directory system.

In Designer, you must click the icon next to a GCV to edit it. This displays the Password Synchronization dialog box for a better view of the relationship between the different GCVs.

In iManager, to edit the Password management options go to Driver Properties > Global Configuration Values, and then edit it in your Password synchronization policy tab.

For more information about how to use the Password Management GCVs, see Configuring Password Flow in the NetIQ Identity Manager Password Management Guide.

Connected System or Driver Name: Specify the name of the Active Directory system or the driver name. This value is used by the e-mail notification template to identify the source of the notification message.

Application accepts passwords from Identity Manager: If True, allows passwords to flow from the Identity Manager data store to the connected system.

Identity Manager accepts passwords from application: If True, allows passwords to flow from the connected system to Identity Manager.

Publish passwords to NDS password: Use the password from the connected system to set the non-reversible NDS password in eDirectory.

Publish passwords to Distribution Password: Use the password from the connected system to set the NMAS Distribution Password used for Identity Manager password synchronization.

Require password policy validation before publishing passwords: If True, applies NMAS password policies during publish password operations. The password is not written to the data store if it does not comply.

Reset user’s external system password to the Identity Manager password on failure: If True, on a publish Distribution Password failure, attempt to reset the password in the connected system by using the Distribution Password from the Identity Manager data store.

Notify the user of password synchronization failure via e-mail: If True, notify the user by e-mail of any password synchronization failures.

A.2.3 Account Tracking

Account tracking is part of the Identity Reporting Module. For more information, see the Administrator Guide to NetIQ Identity Reporting.

Enable account tracking: Set this to True to enable account tracking policies. Set it to False if you do not want to execute account tracking policies.

Realm: Specify the name of the realm, security domain, or namespace in which the account name is unique.

Object Class: Add the object class to track. Class names must be in the application namespace.

Identifiers: Add the account identifier attributes. Attribute names must be in the application namespace.

Status attribute: Name of the attribute in the application namespace to represent the account status.

Status active value: Value of the status attribute that represents an active state.

Status inactive value: Value of the status attribute that represents an inactive state.

Subscription default status: Select the default status that the policies assume when an object is subscribed to the application and the status attribute is not set in the Identity Vault.

Publication default status: Select the default status that the policies assume when an object is published to the Identity Vault and the status attribute is not set in the application.

A.2.4 Managed System Information

These settings help the Identity Reporting Module function to generate reports. There are different sections in the Managed System Information tab.

General Information

Name: Specify a descriptive name for this Active Directory system. This name is displayed in the reports.

Description: Specify a brief description of this Active Directory system. This description is displayed in the reports.

Location: Specify the physical location of this Active Directory system. This location is displayed in the reports.

Vendor: Select Microsoft as the vendor of the Active Directory system. This information is displayed in the reports.

Version: Specify the version of this Active Directory system. This version information is displayed in the reports.

System Ownership

Business Owner: Browse to and select the business owner in the Identity Vault for this Active Directory system. You must select a user object, not a role, group, or container.

Application Owner: Browse to and select the application owner in the Identity Vault for this Active Directory system. You must select a user object, not a role, group, or container.

System Classification

Classification: Select the classification of the Active Directory system. This information is displayed in the reports. The options are:

Mission-Critical
Vital
Not-Critical
Other

If you select Other, you must specify a custom classification for the Active Directory system.

Environment: Select the type of environment the Active Directory system provides. The options are:

Development
Test
Staging
Production
Other

If you select Other, you must specify a custom classification for the Active Directory system.

Connection and Miscellaneous Information

Connection and miscellaneous information: This options is always set to hide, so that you don’t make changes to these options. These options are system options that are necessary for reporting to work. If you make any changes, reporting stops working.