Connector Guides

Note: For documentation about connectors and Connector Xpress, see the CA Identity Management and Governance Connectors wiki.

A connector is the software that enables communication between CA Identity Manager and an endpoint system.

For each endpoint that you want to manage, you must have a connector. Connectors are responsible for representing each of the managed objects in your endpoint in a consistent manner. Connectors translate add, modify, delete, rename, and search LDAP operations on those objects into corresponding actions against the endpoint system.

CA IAM Connector Server (CA IAM CS) comes with the following connectors:

CA ACF2
CA Strong Authentication
CA Privileged Identity Manager
CA Data Protection
CA Single Sign-On
CA Top Secret
Google Apps
Google Apps (using CA API Gateway)
IBM DB2 for z/OS
IBM DB2 UDB
IBM i5/OS (OS/400)
IBM RACF
Lotus Notes Domino
Microsoft Active Directory
Microsoft Exchange
Microsoft Lync
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Office 365
Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft Windows
Oracle Applications
Oracle PeopleSoft
Oracle Siebel CRM
RSA ACE SecurID
RSA SecurID 7
Salesforce
SAP
SCIM
ServiceNow
UNIX
Web Services
Zendesk

In addition, you can generate a dynamic connector using Connector Xpress, and you can develop a custom static connector in Java.

Users use Connector Xpress to generate and maintain the XML metadata for JDBC and JNDI dynamic connectors. Developers can also maintain data for other connectors manually, or adjust metadata for released connectors (for instance adding site-specific mappings for custom attributes).