Novell Doc: Identity Manager 3.5.1 Driver for SIF Implementation Guide

2.1 Outlining Your Groups Of Students

Outlining the groups of students that you want the Identity Manager Driver for SIF to manage provides the following benefits:

It helps you prepare for creating the tree structure you want to use for the containers that hold student users, described in the next section, Section 2.2, Creating Your Tree Structure.
It helps you configure the driver more quickly. In the driver configuration, you must specify each group of students, their location, and the Template object to use.

As a planning tool, we recommend that you create a table to represent the groups of students. This table is helpful you when you are configuring the driver, to make sure you have all the containers and templates you need.

When identifying the groups, use the identifiers used by your student information system for school code and for grade or graduation year. To configure the driver correctly, you need to know the codes your student information system uses.

You can choose to group students by grade level, graduation year, school, or in a single container. (Example tree structures are shown in Creating Containers for Students.)

For example, consider a school district named Alpine District, with one Zone and three schools: Canyon Elementary, Sunset Middle School, and Highland High School. To group the students by grade level, you would create a table like Table 2-1.

Table 2-1 An Example Planning Table

School Code	Grade or Graduation Year	Container DN	Template DN
CElem	KG
	01
	02
	03
	04
	05
	06
SMiddle	07
	08
HHS	09
	10
	11
	12

After completing the planning section Section 2.2, Creating Your Tree Structure, you would fill in the rest of the table with the container DN and template for each student group.

For example, if you were using one container per grade level, and decided to use one template per school with the templates placed in the Alpine container, your table would now look like Table 2-2.

Table 2-2 Container DN Mapped to a Template for Each User Group

School Code	Grade or Graduation Year	Container DN	Template DN
CElem	KG	Alpine\District\Canyon Elem\K	Alpine\Elementary
	01	Alpine\District\Canyon Elem\01	Alpine\Elementary
	02	Alpine\District\Canyon Elem\02	Alpine\Elementary
	03	Alpine\District\Canyon Elem\03	Alpine\Elementary
	04	Alpine\District\Canyon Elem\04	Alpine\Elementary
	05	Alpine\District\Canyon Elem\05	Alpine\Elementary
	06	Alpine\District\Canyon Elem\06	Alpine\Elementary
SMiddle	07	Alpine\District\Sunset Middle\07	Alpine\Middle
	08	Alpine\District\Sunset Middle\08	Alpine\Middle
HHS	09	Alpine\District\Highland High\09	Alpine\HighSchool
	10	Alpine\District\Highland High\10	Alpine\HighSchool
	11	Alpine\District\Highland High\11	Alpine\HighSchool
	12	Alpine\District\Highland High\12	Alpine\HighSchool

Use the table as a reference when you configure the driver, as described in Section 5.1, Creating and Configuring the Driver.