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Open Call - IDM Association Values for eDirectory Objects
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Identity Manager stores an association value on each eDirectory object for each connected system.
The association value is meant to be connected in a system-specific way, and uniquely within it. Each driver handles this slightly differently.
I think it would be nice to have the complete list. Here are the ones I know about so far. If you know any more, please email me to add to the list! Or respond in the comments, or send me a personal message via Cool Solutions. All will work
| Driver | Association Value |
| eDirectory | eDirectory GUID value |
| Active Directory | Active Directory GUID |
| Lotus Notes | UNID (Notes Universal ID) (32 char string), see Lothars comments down below for how to find the UNID value within Lotus Notes. |
| GroupWise | NGW: GroupWise ID, this is a string with three parts, DOM.PO.UserName{xxx}GUIDValue I do not know what the {xxx} means, nor whose GUID but everybody in a GW system seems to have the same values. |
| Delimited Text | email address, but you almost always change that |
| JDBC | Primary Key value |
| PeopleSoft | EMPLID (eDirs workforceID) |
| SAP HR | PERNUM (eDir workForceID) for users, or one letter for object type followed by the OBJID (and leading zeroes are not removed, so an Position's value might be S00001234) |
| Older SAP UM | "USd" followed by the SAP username |
| Newer SAP UM | With the CMP release, the SAP UM driver has a couple more modes. It still supports the old format, but now uses a new format of \SytemName\USdSAPUSERNAME which is the old value preceeded by the System name. Docs are here |
| Bidirectional AS400 | USRPRF in the AS400 (basically the username) |
| Bidirectional Linux/Unix | usernameUser (Username value followed by literal string "User" no spaces. Same for groups, just the string is "Group" |
| Bidirectional RACF (Mainframe) | "USER\userid" or "GROUP\groupid" |
| Bidirectional TopSecret | eDir CN |
| Fanout | GUID of the user or group and then maintains its own "association", a multi-valued field, one per platform, which is just the "CN" |
| Loopback/Null | By default nothing, but you can add whatever you like |
| eXtend Composer shims | Whatever you set it to be, no default |
| User Application | Everybody gets the same value, "AnAssociation" |
| Scripting | No real default, whatever you set it to be |
| LDAP | LDAP DN of the user, like cn=bob,o=acme |
| JMS | Driver GUID & Message ID |
| Avaya PBX | /DRIVERNAME/workorderCN Time like /Avaya PBX/avaya.test07 01/19/2009 09:24:49:0756 |
| Work Order | Workorder driver name, the workorder CN + creation date/timestamp, e.g "\MyWorkorderDriver\MyWorkorder 1/14/2009 15:23 |
| Remedy | Schema name and request ID of the entry |
Third Party Drivers
| Third Party Driver | Association Value |
| Google Apps by Concensus Consulting | Google Username since it cannot be renamed |
| Pulsen Snapshot Driver V3 by Pulsen | LDAP: Any attribute value available in the application (including dn). ODBC: Any column value available in the result set or a concatenated value from two or more columns (since the association is taken from one column in a result set and not a table it could be anything that a SQL statement can generate). |
| HL7 Driver from EST Group | A derived value to insure uniqueness |
| Google Apps Driver from EST Group | Full domain address of the destination domain |
| Tivoli Access Manager Driver from EST Group | Source DN of the object, since there is nothing unique that TAM provides |
Here are the known drivers we are missing values for:
| Driver | Association Value |
| SOAP | I imagine it is whatever you set it to be |
| SIF | Never seen this driver, so no idea, anyone? Bueller, Bueller? |
Did I miss any drivers? I know there are custom ones out there, so if you know of any let me know! But also lets focus on Novell provided ones
Shout out via the comments if you know one that we are missing! Feel free to email me, or send me a message via Cool Solutions if you would like.
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Driver: JDBCAssociation
Submitted by tse7147 on 22 February 2008 - 6:58am.
Driver: JDBC
Association Value: Unique Key field value
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ad association
Submitted by florianz on 12 March 2008 - 12:14am.
what is taken is the objectGUID (that´s the name of the ad-attribute).
can be seen via adsiedit or sysinternals active directory explorer
value of dirxml-ad-association
5de77f84f3ab534babbf13edd6540d77
sysinternals active directory explorer:
847FE75D-ABF3-4B53-ABBF-13EDD6540D77
adsiedit
0x84 0x7F .....
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More Association values
Submitted by geoffc on 27 July 2008 - 4:17pm.
Bidirectional Linux-Unix driver users
usernamerUser
groupnameGroup
that is, it appends User or Group to the username in the Linux/Unix system.
SAP HR driver uses the PERNUM (which we typically map to workforceID).
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SAP User Management
Submitted by lhaeger on 1 August 2008 - 1:21am.
The SAP UM driver uses an assocation value made of the fixed string "USd" + SAP username, so with a SAP username of "LHAEGER" my assocation would be "USdLHAEGER"
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Lotus Notes
Submitted by lhaeger on 1 August 2008 - 1:29am.
The noted driver uses an association value that is a concatenation of thw first two ID values, as shown in the properties of any notes doc (on the tab with the propeller-helmet icon - or whatever it shall be). The first two letters ("OF" and "ON") are left out, as well as the ":" in the middle of the IDs. So if your doc's IDs are
OD6D54E567:C44A9B56
ON678DE654:A9845B44
SD...
DB...
NT...
the association value will be 6D54E567C44A9B56678DE654A9845B44
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Lotus Notes II
Submitted by florianz on 5 November 2008 - 1:42am.
there´s an easier way to get the UNID in notes:
click on the document (e.g. a person-document in names.nsf,..) and open the "meta"-tag (<+>). there is a string which contains the UNID in the second last field (as is in notes 7). take the last 32 numbers (just after the last "/").
full string:
Notes://LN030P34/80245F200033EAF0/85255E01001351A8852554C200753106/328F807ACC39CCF6C1256AD9004D1232
UNID:
328F807ACC39CCF6C1256AD9004D1232
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User Application
Submitted by jgdasilva on 14 January 2009 - 4:19pm.
The association value for the User Application driver is the text AnAssociation
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User App
Submitted by geoffc on 14 January 2009 - 6:55pm.
Darn, I remember seeing that and thinking it was the other guy who did the UA drivers idea of a joke. Oh well. It does not need a unique value really, so any string would do I guess.
I love funny names for variables, test users (Though my boss is awesome at those!), server names, etc.
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LDAP & JMS
Submitted by vijaysat on 15 January 2009 - 1:30am.
LDAP driver will use the object DN from the LDAP server.
JMS server by default will use the Driver GUID & Message ID. if required this behavior can be changed.
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LDAP + Workorder driver associations
Submitted by lhaeger on 15 January 2009 - 1:55am.
LDAP: DN of the object in the LDAP directory, e.g. "cn=surname\, givenname,dc=users,dc=acme"
WorkOrder: name of the Workorder driver, the workorder + creation date/timestamp, e.g "\MyWorkorderDriver\MyWorkorder 1/14/2009 15:23"
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SAP HR
Submitted by lhaeger on 15 January 2009 - 2:06am.
the leading letter indicating the SAP object type on non-user objects is added by an input transform in the default driver config (and not always removed in output transforms, which causes some queries to never return any results). The driver shim itself expects OBJID only, without any letter at the beginning.
No idea why the default driver config adds the letters (human readability cannot be the only reason to unnecessarily complicate things that way, can it?), my driver works just fine with the unmodified values.
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