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How You Acquire and Manage Endpoints

Acquiring an endpoint automatically populates the Provisioning Server with accounts and other objects found in the acquired endpoint. An acquired endpoint is any application or computer managed by the Provisioning Server.

Acquiring an endpoint consists of creating it, exploring it, and correlating it. Correlating an endpoint is the process of examining accounts on it, and potentially creating users automatically and setting global user attributes from account attributes.

To manage an endpoint using Connector Xpress, do the following:

1. Create the endpoint in the Provisioning Server. When you register an endpoint, you are declaring it as an endpoint managed by the Provisioning Server.
2. Explore its contents. When you explore an endpoint, Connector Xpress finds the objects in the endpoint and stores a record of them in the Provisioning Server.
3. Correlate the explored accounts. When you correlate accounts on an endpoint, the Provisioning Server associates them with a global user in the Provisioning directory. You can choose whether the correlate function creates any global users that are not present or whether it associates accounts with no matching global user to the [default user] global user.
4. Update global user fields from accounts.

   Whether you chose to let correlate function create missing users, you can optionally run an additional function that sets (or refreshes) selected user attributes using the account's attribute values that you select.