1.1 New Features
In this section:
1.1.1 Driver Features
- The Identity Manager Driver 1.5.0
for SIF conforms to SIF Implementation Specifications 1.1 and 1.5r1
and is certified by the SIF organization.
- The driver configuration provided has the following
enhancements:
- Receives information from multiple
Zones using a single driver object. You can receive information
from up to 10 Zones with one driver object.
- Can send or receive user passwords. Sending passwords
allows other SIF-enabled applications to use a common password provided
by the Identity Vault. Receiving passwords allows another SIF-enabled
application to be the authoritative source for passwords.
- Manages both students and staff using a single driver
object.
- Allows configuration data to be edited more easily
(such as school names and codes, and student groups), through the
use of global configuration values (GCVs).
- Provides more flexibility for creating the pattern
for user IDs.
- Places user objects that have login disabled in
a container you specify. For example, students whose login has been
disabled because the student has withdrawn from school can be automatically
placed in a Disabled container.
- The driver supports bidirectional data flow. This
new feature allows for the following options:
- You can specify that the Identity
Vault is the authoritative source for some SIF attributes, meaning
that changes made to those attributes in the Identity Vault are
published to other SIF-enabled applications.
- If your Student Information System is not SIF-enabled,
you can use the Identity Manager Driver for SIF to provide student
information to other SIF-enabled applications.
- The driver requires Identity Manager, which supports
iManager as the management utility. ConsoleOne® is no longer
supported.
- The driver now optionally supports the SIF EmployeePersonal
object on the Publisher channel. You can provision Users provided
by a SIF-enabled HR system. (EmployeePersonal objects cannot be
sent from the Identity Vault to SIF.)
- Duplicate user IDs are resolved by appending a digit
to the user ID, or you can configure e-mail notifications to inform
administrators of the duplicate user ID.