5.3 JDBC Driver Settings

You can change the driver options to align with your connected database.The following table summarizes the JDBC driver settings:

Table 5-1 JDBC Driver Settings

Setting

Description

Driver name

The name of the driver that you want to display in the driver set.

Target database

The database that the driver connects to.

Driver is local/remote

Whether the driver runs locally or remotely on a Remote Loader.

Synchronization model

Whether the driver uses views to synchronize directly to existing tables of arbitrary structure or synchronize to intermediate staging tables of a particular structure.

Third-party JDBC implementation

The class of the third-party JDBC file specific to the database being synchronized with Identity Manager. For more information, see Section 13.3.3, JDBC Driver Class Names.

Data flow

Whether the authoritative source of data is the database, Identity Manager, or bidirectional (both the database and Identity Manager).

Database host IP address

The IP address of the database host.

Database port

The port that the driver shim uses to communicate with the database. If you don’t provide a port number, the Driver Configuration Wizard provides a default port number for the database that you selected at install time.

User container DN

The distinguished name (complete context) of the container where the database users are published. For example: data\company\users.

Group container DN

The distinguished name (complete context) of the container where the database groups are published. For example: data\company\groups.

Publication mode

Whether publication is triggered (default) or triggerless.