14.1 What Is Synchronization?

The actions commonly referred to as “synchronization” in Identity Manager refer to several different but related actions:

  • Synchronization (or merging) of attribute values of an object in the Identity Vault with the corresponding attribute values of an associated object in a connected system.

  • Migration of all Identity Vault objects and classes that are included in the filter on the Subscriber channel.

  • Generation of the list of objects to submit to the driver’s Subscriber channel for synchronization or migration in response to a user request (a manual synchronization).

  • Generation of the list of objects to submit to the driver’s Subscriber channel for synchronization or migration in response to enabling a formerly disabled driver, or in response to a cache error.