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How to Define a Universe

This scenario describes how to define a CA GovernanceMinder universe.

A CA GovernanceMinder universe is a view into a management workspace that enables CA GovernanceMinder administrators to manage entities such as users, roles, and resources. Entity data is stored in the CA GovernanceMinder database. A universe consists of a specific pair of Master-Model configurations. These configurations enable you to track the differences between the real-world configuration that is imported from the system (Master), and the desired configuration generated (Model).

A CA GovernanceMinder universe stores imported endpoint data from such sources as CA IdentityMinder, CA IAM Connector Server, CFG, and so on.

Some of the configurations that every universe contains are as follows:

• Master - An image of the privilege model exactly as it is on the target system.
• Model - An image of the privilege model as CA GovernanceMinder prefers to be, having undergone such actions as certification, compliance, or role modeling.
• Field names (in the configuration files) that contain the following information:
  • User login credentials
  • Email address
  • User manager
  • Role manager
  • Resource manager
• Audit Settings file name.

Note: For more information about additional configurations, see the Configuration Guide.

The following diagram outlines the steps that are required to define a CA GovernanceMinder universe:

Follow these steps:

1. Add a universe.
2. Define an import connector.
3. Complete the Universe definition.
4. (Optional) Customize universe tables.
5. (Optional) Customize Workflow display settings.