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Acquire a Siebel Server Using the Provisioning Manager

You must acquire the Siebel server before you can administer it with CA Identity Manager. When acquiring a Siebel server, use this procedure.

From the Endpoint type task view

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

   Use the Siebel Server Endpoint property sheet to register a Siebel Server. Necessary mapping information should be provided to associate Siebel fields and CA Identity Manager attributes. This includes information about Siebel business objects, Siebel business components, and necessary Siebel fields for user accounts and required multi-value groups (positions, responsibilities, organizations, and views).

   During the registration process, CA Identity Manager identifies the Siebel Server you want to administer and gathers information about it.

2. Explore the objects that exist on the endpoint.

   After registering the machine in CA Identity Manager, you can explore its contents. Use the Explore and Correlate Endpoint dialog. The Exploration process finds all Siebel Server objects. You can correlate the user accounts with global users at this time, or you can wait to correlate them.

3. Correlate the explored user accounts with global users.

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

   1. CA Identity Manager attempts to match the username with each existing global user name. If a match is found, CA Identity Manager associates the Siebel Server user with the global user. If a match is not found, CA Identity Manager performs the next step.
   2. If the Create Global Users as Needed button is checked, CA Identity Manager creates a new global user and associates the Siebel user account with the global user. If the Create Global Users as Needed button is unchecked, then CA Identity Manager performs the next step.
   3. CA Identity Manager associates the Siebel user account with the [default user] object.