As you work with the Blackboard driver, there are a variety of management tasks you might need to perform, including the following:
Starting, stopping, and restarting the driver
NOTE:If the connectivity to the database server for Blackboard is lost, the driver shim must be restarted to re-establish communication with the Blackboard Application.
Viewing driver version information
Using Named Passwords to securely store passwords associated with the driver
Monitoring the driver’s health status
Backing up the driver
Inspecting the driver’s cache files
Viewing the driver’s statistics
Using the DirXML Command Line utility to perform management tasks through scripts
Securing the driver and its information
Synchronizing objects
Migrating and resynchronizing data
Activating the driver
Because these tasks, as well as several others, are common to all Identity Manager drivers, they are included in one reference, the Identity Manager 4.8 Common Driver Administration Guide, available at the Identity Manager 4.8 Documentation page.