The Novell® Identity Manager 4.0.1 driver for Blackboard lets you synchronize data in the Identity Vault to data stored in a Blackboard Learn implementation.
The Subscriber channel receives XDS command documents for users and groups from the Identity Manager Metadirectory engine, converts them to Blackboard API calls, and executes them. The Publisher channel is not implemented at this time.
The Subscriber channel does not perform validation of attribute values in the XDS command document. If the requirements of Blackboard are not met, the results of the Blackboard API calls are unpredictable. Exceptions detected by the Blackboard API bubble up to the driver trace to assist in troubleshooting data validity problems.
The following sections provide a basic overview of the driver: