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CA Identity Manager Directories

A CA Identity Manager directory describes how objects, such as users, groups, and (optionally) organizations are stored in the user store and how they are represented in CA Identity Manager. A CA Identity Manager directory is associated with one or more CA Identity Manager environments.

The following illustration shows how a CA Identity Manager directory relates to a user store:

Mapping attributes in a User Database to a DirectoryMapping attributes to an Administrator Directory

Note: Some user attributes in the database are not part of the CA Identity Manager directory. Therefore, CA Identity Manager does not manage them.