5.4 Managing Additional Attributes

You can add additional attributes to the driver for both the Publisher and Subscriber channels. These attributes can be accessed by the scripts for all event types.

To publish or subscribe to additional attributes, you must add them to the filter and add support for them into the scripts. Topics in this section include

5.4.1 Modifying the Filter

  1. Select the Identity Manager Drivers module from the Identity Console landing page.

  2. Select the Data Transformation and Synchronization tab.

  3. Expand the Class Attribute Filters panel and select a class name.

  4. Click Add Attribute, then select the attribute from the list.

  5. Select the flow of this attribute for the Publisher and Subscriber channels.

    • Synchronize: Changes to this object are reported and automatically synchronized.

    • Ignore: Changes to this object are not reported and not automatically synchronized.

    • Notify: Changes to this object are reported, but not automatically synchronized.

    • Reset: Resets the object value to the value specified by the opposite channel. (You can set this value on either the Publisher or Subscriber channel, but not both.)

  6. Click the Save icon.

  7. If you want to map this attribute to an existing attribute in the connected system’s schema, modify the Schema Mapping policy for the driver.

For complete details about managing filters and Schema Mapping policies, see Policies in the Identity Manager Guide.

5.4.2 Modifying the Scripts for New Attributes

In the Subscriber channel, scripts are called to take the appropriate action for each type of event. You will need to modify the appropriate scripts to read the values from the new attributes.

Publishing additional attributes requires that you act on changes made in the connected system application. In addition, the schema.def file should be updated with the additional attributes (see The Connected System Schema File).