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Batch Processing in Identity Manager Implementations

If you used the Universal Feed Option or the PeopleSoft Feed Option for batch loading users in eTrust Admin, consider the following methods, which allow you to batch load and modify user information without feed options:

• Bulk Loader—You can use the Bulk Loader tab in the User Console to upload feeder files that are used to manipulate large numbers of managed objects simultaneously. The advantage of the Bulk Loader method is that you can automate the process of manipulating a large number of managed objects using an information (feeder) file. The Bulk Loader task can also be mapped to a workflow process.

Note: CSV is the default file format for the feeder, but you can create a custom feed for other file formats.

• Service Provisioning Markup Language (SPML)—You can generate SPML requests that are submitted directly to the Provisioning Server without having to convert user data to a CSV or XML input file.
• TEWS—CA Identity Manager provides Task Execution Web Services (TEWS) which expose CA Identity Manager tasks as web services. TEWS requests are submitted to CA Identity Manager as if they were initiated in the Identity Manager User Console.

  CA Identity Manager provides documentation and samples that illustrate how to submit batch changes using TEWS. See the Programming Guide for Java for details.

• etautil Batch Utility—You can use this command line utility to submit batch changes to the Provisioning Server.

CA Identity Manager can apply identity policies or workflow processes to any batch feed transaction initiated using one of these methods.