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CA RCM Integration

CA RCM is an identity lifecycle management product that enables you to quickly and accurately develop, maintain, and analyze role models. It also provides centralized identity compliance policy controls and automates processes associated with meeting compliance and security demands. Using CA RCM, you can do the following:

• Validate that CA Identity Manager user privileges are granted in accordance with business compliance policies
• Get suggested roles and compliance checking when creating or modifying CA Identity Manager users, roles, and accounts
• Understand what roles exist in your organization, establish a role model that fits your organization, and re-create the desired role model within CA Identity Manager
• Analyze and maintain that role model as business evolves

CA Identity Manager integrates with CA RCM in two ways:

• CA RCM Connector for CA Identity Manager

  A special type of connector that automatically synchronizes the privilege data between CA Identity Manager and CA RCM. By using this connector, you can import data from CA Identity Manager to CA RCM or export data from CA RCM to CA Identity Manager.

• Smart Provisioning

  When CA Identity Manager integrates with CA RCM, you can configure additional functionality that allows you to use role and compliance information, which is available in a role model, to support day-to-day identity management operations. Changes made in CA Identity Manager dynamically update the role model in CA RCM.

Note: For more information about CA RCM integration with CA Identity Manager, see the CA Identity Manager Integration Guide found in the CA RCM bookshelf.