New Features
In this section:
Driver Features
- The Identity Manager Driver 1.5.0 for SIF conforms to SIF Implementation Specifications 1.1 and 1.5r1 and is certified by the SIF organization.
- The driver configuration provided has the following enhancements:
- Receives information from multiple Zones using a single driver object. You can receive information from up to 10 Zones with one driver object.
- Can send or receive user passwords. Sending passwords allows other SIF-enabled applications to use a common password provided by eDirectory. Receiving passwords allows another SIF-enabled application to be the authoritative source for passwords.
- Manages both students and staff using a single driver object.
- Allows configuration data to be edited more easily (such as school names and codes, and student groups), through the use of global configuration values (GCVs).
- Provides more flexibility for creating the pattern for user IDs.
- Places user objects that have login disabled in a container you specify. For example, students whose login has been disabled because the student has withdrawn from school can be automatically placed in a Disabled container.
- The driver supports bidirectional data flow. This new feature allows for the following options:
- You can specify that eDirectory is the authoritative source for some SIF attributes, meaning that changes made to those attributes in eDirectory are published to other SIF-enabled applications.
- If your student information system is not SIF-enabled, you can use the Identity Manager Driver for SIF to provide student information to other SIF-enabled applications.
- The driver requires NsureTM Identity Manager, which supports iManager as the management utility. ConsoleOne® is no longer supported.
- The driver now optionally supports the SIF EmployeePersonal object on the Publisher channel. You can provision Users provided by a SIF-enabled HR system. (EmployeePersonal objects cannot be sent from eDirectory to SIF.)
- Duplicate user IDs are resolved by appending a digit to the user ID, or you can configure e-mail notifications to inform administrations of the duplicate user ID.