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Acquire an OpenVMS System Using the Provisioning Manager

You must acquire the OpenVMS system before you can administer it with CA Identity Manager. When acquiring an OpenVMS system, perform the following steps from the Endpoint type task view:

1. Register the server as an endpoint in CA Identity Manager.

   Use the OpenVMS Endpoint property sheet to register an OpenVMS system. During the registration process, CA Identity Manager identifies the OpenVMS system you want to administer and gathers information about it.

   Note: Ping the node name from the Provisioning Server. If the ping is successful and your CAM and CAFT Services are configured correctly, then CA Identity Manager finds the OpenVMS node.

2. Explore the objects that exist in the endpoint.

   After registering the server in CA Identity Manager, you can explore its contents. Use the Explore and Correlate Endpoint dialog. The Exploration process finds all OpenVMS accounts and groups. You can correlate the accounts with global users at this time or you can correlate them later.

3. Correlate the explored accounts to global users by choosing either of the following options:
   • Use existing global users
   • Choose this option when there are already global users in CA Identity Manager and you want to connect the existing global users to the OpenVMS accounts
   • Create global users as needed

     Choose this option when there are no global users and you want to populate CA Identity Manager from the OpenVMS accounts.

   When you correlate accounts, CA Identity Manager creates or links the accounts on an endpoint with global users, as follows:

   1. CA Identity Manager attempts to match the user profile name with each existing global user name. If a match is found, CA Identity Manager associates the OpenVMS account with the global user. If a match is not found, Identity Manager performs the next step.
   2. CA Identity Manager attempts to match the user profile name with each existing global user's full name. If a match is found, CA Identity Manager associates the OpenVMS account with the global user. If a match is not found, CA Identity Manager performs the following step.
   3. CA Identity Manager associates the OpenVMS account with the [default user] object or a new global user is created depending on your choice.