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delegated administration

Delegated administration is the management of users and their application access by having different Identity Manager users perform the functions of modifying, assigning, and using a role. For example, the administrator sets up an Identity Manager environment and creates roles with rules about who can be an owner, administrator, or member of the role.

deployment

Deployment describes two different actions, saving metadata from Connector Xpress to an endpoint in the Provisioning Server or making a new connector implementation available to the Java CS by placing its jcs-connector-*.jar file into the <jcs_home>/lib directory.

directory configuration file (directory.xml)

The directory configuration file describes the content and structure of a user store to Identity Manager. You use the directory configuration file to create an Identity Manager directory.

Identity Manager provides directory configuration templates for each type of supported user store.

directory information tree (DIT)

A directory information tree (DIT) is a tree of objects presented to clients by an LDAP server in which the clients can directly name and manipulate those objects by issuing LDAP commands.

Distinguished Name (DN)

A Distinguished Name (DN) is a unique name for an entry in a directory service. In LDAP, this consists of its Relative Distinguished Name (RDN) constructed from some attributes in the entry, followed by the parent entry's DN. The DN is analogous to a full filename, and the RDN is analogous to a relative filename.

dynamic connector

A dynamic connector has metadata that is generated and maintained by end users using Connector Xpress. The metadata drives the behavior of the dynamic connector at runtime.