The actions commonly referred to as “synchronization” in Identity Manager refer to several different but related actions:
Synchronization (or merging) of attribute values of an object in the Identity Vault with the corresponding attribute values of an associated object in a connected system.
Migration of an Identity Vault object that does not have an associated connected system object into the connected system (that is, the creation of a new object in the connected system).
Generation of the list of objects to submit to the driver’s Subscriber channel for synchronization or migration in response to a user request (a manual synchronization).
Generation of the list of objects to submit to the driver’s Subscriber channel for synchronization or migration in response to enabling a formerly disabled driver, or in response to a cache error.