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Default User Console

When you create an Identity Manager environment, CA Identity Manager creates a default User Console that you use to manage the environment. The User Console includes a set of default tasks and roles.

• Tasks are actions performed by CA Identity Manager users. There are two types of tasks:
  • Admin tasks, which you use to manage users, organizations, groups, roles, and tasks.
  • External tasks, which perform functions in business applications, such as passing user attributes to a reporting application
• Roles associate users and privileges to CA Identity Manager or other applications. Roles are made up of tasks. A user who has a role can perform its tasks. Users may have multiple roles. For example, a user may have the roles accountant and employee.

  Admin roles are made up of admin tasks.

The tasks that you see when you log into an Identity Manager environment depend on your admin roles. In the following example, the user Jane Green has the User Manager role. She sees tabs for the admin tasks that are available for User Managers.

In this example, Bill Jergen has the Role Manager role. When he logs into the User Console, he sees only the Roles and Tasks tab that includes the tasks that he can use.

Note: For more information about tasks and roles, see the Administration Guide.