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Connect to CA IdentityMinder

To get CA IdentityMinder data to CA GovernanceMinder, you perform an import. The import process updates both the Master and Model configurations in CA GovernanceMinder and populates a specific universe.

A CA GovernanceMinder universe is coupled with an CA IdentityMinder Environment, and you import Identity Manager users as the CA GovernanceMinder users. Endpoint objects are imported as CA GovernanceMinder resources only.

You can customize the following data 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.

  Note: When you use filters in defining a connector to CA IdentityMinder, the same filters are used when receiving continuous updates from CA IdentityMinder , so as to ignore notifications that do not match the filter.

• 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. Once CA IdentityMinder completes all the changes 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 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

Note: For more information about connecting to CA IdentityMinder, see the Integration Guide.