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Provisioning in an Identity Manager Environment

You can configure provisioning for an Identity Manager Environment to provide accounts in other systems, called endpoints, to users managed by CA Identity Manager. Accounts provide users with access to additional resources, such as an email account. You provide these additional accounts by assigning provisioning roles, which you create through Identity Manager. Provisioning roles are associated with account templates that define accounts that users can receive.

When you assign a provisioning role to a user, that user receives the accounts defined by the account templates in the role. The account templates also define how user attributes are mapped to accounts. The accounts exist in managed endpoints defined by the account templates.

Note: For full details on using a provisioning in CA Identity Manager, see the Administration Guide.