4.2 Creating Resources

You can create a non-valued resource (without entitlements) and entitlement based static or dynamic resource. If you choose to create a resource with entitlements, you have the following choices:

  • Select the driver from the list of available drivers installed in your Identity Manager environment. When you click the tree view of the driver you selected, the entitlements associated with the driver are displayed. Select an entitlement and specify a value for it. If you select Entitlement Association, Catalog Administrator creates a dynamic resource. You must enter a description for the entitlement for the resource to be created. Ensure that you do not include the following characters in the Name and Description fields for the resource: < > , ; \ " + # = / | & *

    After creating a dynamic resource, you can specify the entitlement value when the resource is requested using Identity Manager Home and Provisioning Dashboard or when you are associating the resource with a role using Catalog Administrator.

    NOTE:Select Allow this resource and entitlement to be assigned multiple times with different values only if this resource will be requested by business users multiple times with different values.

    This option is displayed for User Account entitlement though it should not be because User Account entitlement is a single-valued entitlement.

  • Select the driver from the list of available drivers installed in your Identity Manager environment and select an entitlement value from the list. The new static resource is associated with this entitlement value. If you select multiple entitlement values for creating a resource, Catalog Administrator automatically creates only one resource for each entitlement value.

To create a resource without entitlements, you must specify the mandatory fields to create it. The newly added resources are added to the organizational resources and available for business managers.