CA IdentityMinder Integration Guide › Integration Concepts › Import and Export

Import and Export

To introduce CA IdentityMinder data to CA GovernanceMinder, you perform an import. The import process updates both the master and model configurations as follows:

1. The product creates a local copy of all the CA IdentityMinder data.
2. The product compares the local copy with the master configuration. This results in a list of all changes since the last time the import ran.
3. The master configuration is updated with all the changes, and the master configuration now reflects everything in CA IdentityMinder.
4. All changes are made in the model configuration, one by one. If the model configuration was the same as the master configuration, it will also be the same after the import. However, if there were changes made in the model, they are not overwritten by the import.

A CA GovernanceMinder universe is coupled with a CA IdentityMinder Environment, and you import corporate users as the CA GovernanceMinder users. CA IdentityMinder endpoint objects are imported as CA GovernanceMinder resources.

Important! Only one universe can be associated with a CA IdentityMinder environment. If you must manage a different CA IdentityMinder environment, create a new universe. If you delete a universe and create a new one, you must do a fresh import for the integration to work with the new universe.

You can customize the following data that you want to import:

• What types of endpoint objects to import. If you only want a subset of a particular object type, you can also apply filters to the data that is imported.
• What attributes are mapped to what CA GovernanceMinder fields.

To push updated CA GovernanceMinder data to CA IdentityMinder, you perform an export. The export process takes the differences between the Master and Model configurations, creates a DIFF file and sends those changes to CA IdentityMinder. When CA IdentityMinder completes each change defined in the export task, it sends a notification back to CA GovernanceMinder. At that time, CA GovernanceMinder updates the Master to reflect what is in the Model and Continuous Update keeps CA IdentityMinder and the CA GovernanceMinder Master configuration synchronized.

An export from CA GovernanceMinder now updates data in the CA IdentityMinder object store, and not only the Provisioning Server. This allows you to take advantage of the following CA IdentityMinder features:

• CA IdentityMinder task model
• CA IdentityMinder transaction logging
• CA IdentityMinder policy triggers