The GenericLoopBack Services driver is a utility driver that forwards all operations submitted to the Subscriber channel to the Publisher channel of the same driver. It can be used to implement a wide variety of custom behavior that can be implemented in a policy.
The driver does not have any communication with any external application. The Subscriber channel forwards operations to the Publisher channel of the same driver.
The GenericLoopBack Services driver is automatically installed when you install the Metadirectory Server option in the Identity Manager installation program. The driver runs on the platforms supported by Identity Manager and the Remote Loader service. The driver does not require a separate activation. When you activate the Metadirectory engine, the driver is also activated.
A base configuration of the driver does not contain much information:
No policies.
An empty filter.
Publisher heartbeat configuration option is available, but it is set to Disabled.
No prompts for information when importing the driver.
To configure the GenericLoopBack driver:
In iManager, select .
Select a driver set, then click .
If you place this driver in a new driver set, you must specify a driver set name, context, and associated server.
Select how you want the driver configurations sorted:
All configurations
Identity Manager 3.5 configurations
Identity Manager 3.0 configurations
Configurations not associated with an IDM version
Select , then click .
Specify a name for the driver, then click .
Define security equivalences for the driver and exclude administrative roles from replication, then click .
Read the summary, then click .