If Local Variable

Remark

For more information on using variables with policies, see Understanding Policies Components.

Fields

Name

Specify the name of the local variable to test for the selected condition.

Operator

Select the condition test type.

Operator	Returns True when...
Available	There is a local variable with the specified name that has been defined by an action of a earlier rule within the policy.
Not Available	Available would return False.
Equal	There is a local variable with the specified name, and its value equals the specified value when compared using the specified comparison mode.
Not Equal	Equal would return False.
Greater Than	There is a local variable with the specified name, and its value is greater than the content of the condition when compared using the specified comparison mode.
Not Greater Than	Greater Than or Equal would return False.
Less Than	There is a local variable with the specified name, and its value is less than the content of the condition when compared using the specified comparison mode.
Not Less Than	Less than or equal would return False.

Value

Contains the value defined for the select operator. The value is used by the condition. Each value supports variable expansion. For more information, see Variable Expansion. The operators that contain the value field are:

• Equal

• Not Equal

• Greater Than

• Not Greater Than

• Less Than

• Not Less Than

Comparison Mode

The condition has a comparison mode parameter that indicates how a comparison is done.

Mode	Description
Case Sensitive	Character-by-character case sensitive comparison.
Case Insensitive	Character-by-character case insensitive comparison.
Regular Expression	The regular expression matches the entire string. It defaults to case insensitive, but can be changed by an escape in the expression. See Sun’s Web site. The pattern options CASE_INSENSITIVE, DOTALL, and UNICODE_CASE are used but can be reversed using the appropriate embedded escapes.
Source DN	Compares using semantics appropriate to the DN format for the source data store.
Destination DN	Compares using semantics appropriate to the DN format for the destination data store.
Numeric	Compares numerically.
Binary	Compares the binary information.

The operators that contain the comparison mode parameter are:

• Equal

• Not Equal

• Greater Than

• Not Greater Than

• Less Than

• Not Less Than

Example

The example adds a User object to the appropriate group, Employee or Manager, based on Title. It also creates the group, if needed, and sets up security equal to that group. The policy is Govern Groups for User Based on Title Attribute, and it is available for download from the Novell Support Web site. For more information, see Downloading Identity Manager Policies.To view the policy in XML, see 003-Command-AddCreate-Groups.xml.

The policy contains five rules that are dependent on each other.

For the If Locate Variable condition to work, the first rule sets four different local variables to test for groups and where to place the groups.

The condition the rule is looking for is to see if the local variable of manager-group-info is available and if manager-group-info is not equal to group. If these conditions are met, then the destination object of group is added.