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Provisioning Accounts from Other Applications

The decision to implement provisioning depends on the type of information that you need to manage. If you are managing a central user directory and you do not want to manage user accounts in other systems, you do not need provisioning. If you want to manage user accounts over a variety of systems, then you should implement provisioning support.

Provisioning capabilities are provided through the Provisioning Server, which is integrated with CA Identity Manager. The Provisioning Server provides the following functionality for account provisioning:

• Endpoint Management
• Account Synchronization
• Account Templates
• Explore and Correlate Functionality

Note: Provisioning information is stored in a Provisioning Directory. If CA Identity Manager maintains users in another type of directory, your deployment will include an Identity Manager user store and a provisioning directory.

More information:

User Store and Provisioning Directory