During your planning, decide whether you want the driver to manage existing Identity Vault user accounts. This decision lets you know whether to specify Yes or No for the Manage Existing eDirectory Users field when configuring the driver. This field is on the Global Config Variables page for the driver.
The driver gives you the following options for how to handle existing accounts. You can choose one to start with, and later switch to another option as needed.
Yes. Use this option if you have one of the following scenarios:
The Identity Vault has no users, and you want to populate the Identity Vault by migrating all students from the student information system into the Identity Vault.
You want to remove all existing users in the Identity Vault and home directories, then populate the Identity Vault by migrating all students from the student information system into the Identity Vault.
You want to manage all existing Identity Vault User objects and new students, without deleting any existing user accounts.
Add the student ID from the student information system to the DirXML-sifSISID attribute for existing accounts in the Identity Vault, so the driver can manage them.
No. Use this option if you don’t want to manage existing Identity Vault users; you want to use the driver only to provision new students.
For more information on these options, the reasons why you might choose them, and how to set them up, see Section 5.4, Synchronizing the Identity Vault the First Time.