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An endpoint is a specific installation of a platform or application, such as Active Directory or Microsoft Exchange, which communicates with Identity Manager to synchronize information. An endpoint is managed by a connector server using a specific connector.
A connector is the software that enables communication between a Provisioning Server and an endpoint system. A dynamic connector can be generated by Connector Xpress, and a custom static connector can be developed in Java or C++.
For each endpoint that you want to manage, you must have a connector. Connectors are responsible for representing each of the object classes 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.
Users use Connector Xpress to generate and maintain 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).
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