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 all Identity Vault objects and classes that are included in the filter on the Subscriber channel.
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.