This section provides information on the following:
For information on Identity Manager fundamentals, see Novell Identity Manager 3.0.1 Administration Guide.
The Driver for Delimited Text uses the Publisher channel, the Subscriber channel, and policies to control data flow.
The Driver for Delimited Text supports the Publisher and Subscriber channels:
By default, the Publisher channel does the following:
By default, the Subscriber channel keeps an output file open until either 200 transactions have been logged or 30 seconds have elapsed. When either of these thresholds is reached, the output file is saved with a number.csv filename and a new output file is opened.
Figure 1-1 Data Flow
The sample configuration that ships with this driver includes both Subscriber and Publisher channels. However, in many configurations, only one-way data flow is required. In those configurations, only a Publisher or Subscriber channel is used. The other channel is disabled.
Policies control data synchronization between the driver and the Identity Vault. The following table provides information on the set of preconfigured policies that come with the Driver for Delimited Text. To customize these policies, use Novell® iManager, as explained in Customizing the Driver for Delimited Text .
Table 1-3 Preconfigured Policies
The sample configuration currently supports two types of files:
Comma-separated values (CSV) files are text files that contain data divided into fields and records. Fields are delimited by commas, and records are delimited by a hard return.
If you need a comma or hard return within the value of a particular field, the entire field value should be enclosed in quotes.
Because the meaning of each field in a CSV file is derived from its position, each record in a CSV file should have the same number of fields. Field values can be left blank, but each record should have the same number of delimiter characters.
The XDS format is the defined Novell subset of possible XML formats. This is the initial format for data coming from an Identity Vault. By modifying default rules and changing the style sheets, the Delimited Text driver could be configured to work with any XML format.
For detailed information on the XDS format, refer to NDS DTD Commands and Events.
For information on configuring the driver to use XML files in the XDS format, refer to Configuring for XDS XML Files.