This section details your connector's specific management features, such as how to acquire and explore your endpoint. Also included are account, provisioning roles, account template, and group information specifically for your connector.
You must acquire the Siebel server before you can administer it with CA Identity Manager.
To acquire a Siebel server using the User Console
Use the Create Siebel Endpoint page to register a Siebel server. During the registration process, CA Identity Manager identifies the Siebel server you want to administer and gathers information about it.
You are now ready to explore and Correlate the endpoint.
The Exploration process finds all Siebel accounts and groups. You can correlate the accounts with global users at this time or you can correlate them later.
Click Select Container/Endpoint/Explore Method to click a Siebel endpoint to explore.
You may prefer to schedule the task to execute overnight to interfere less with routine access of the system.
Note: This operation requires the client browser to be in the same time zone as the server. For example, if the client time is 10:00 PM on Tuesday when the server time is 7:00 AM, the Explore and Correlate definition will not work.
To use an explore and correlate definition
The user accounts that exist on the endpoint are created or updated in CA Identity Manager based on the explore and correlate definition you created.
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
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.
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.
When you correlate user accounts, CA Identity Manager creates or links the user accounts on an endpoint with global users, as follows:
The following are the limitations for custom attribute handling in the User Console:
You can use the first ten attributes for endpoints with one mapping type and the second ten attributes for endpoints with another mapping type.
For more information, on editing screens. see the User Console Design Guide.
Note: The account template and account profile screens are read-only screens. Before following the procedure for editing profile screens, make a copy of the account template or account profile screens and save.
Use this tab to create a special position along with a user and associate that position with the new user, possibly as Primary. A position must be associated with a division so the corresponding division field should be filled in.
The fields in this tab are listed below:
Specifies the name of the position.
When checked, specifies the the position is the primary position.
Specifies the custom fields for the Siebel position.
Specifies the position's parent name. Click the Browse button to select a new parent position.
Specifies the position's associated division name. Click the Browse button to select a new division
Siebel systems do not support user account suspension directly. Oracle recommends removing all employee's responsibilities in order to simulate suspension. An employee without any responsibility assigned is able to log into Siebel, but is not able to see Siebel data or perform any action.
User Account Suspension Simulation
The Siebel connector supports the suspension simulation approach.
Once an account has been suspended, you must re-assign the original set of responsibilities back to the account using the Provisioning Server to resume. A new field called Enable user suspension simulation has been added to the Siebel Server tab of the Siebel endpoint and when checked, user suspension simulation is enabled.
Directly Using the eTSuspended Attributes
In addition to the suspension simulation approach, the Siebel connector lets you map the eTSuspended attribute to any Siebel user's field. After the mapping, Siebel (or some custom code incorporated into Siebel) takes care of suspension/resumption processing.
Note: Suspension simulation and direct use of the eTSuspended attribute may interfere with each other, so it is not recommended to enable both direct use and simulation at the same time.
A new Enable create user position feature has been added to the Siebel Server tab of the Siebel Endpoint property sheet that lets you create a position for accounts. This feature can also be set using account templates. When checked, the feature is enabled and positions are created for each account and account template. When unchecked, the feature is disabled. By default, the feature is disabled.
Symptom:
When I try to remove all positions from an employee record, I see an error message stating that an employee must have at least one position.
However, all positions are removed.
Solution:
When you try to remove all positions, the product works correctly and no error message should appear. This problem is due to an error in the Siebel API.
This applies to the following connectors: Windows, Oracle RDBMS, Siebel, UNIX NIS, MS SQL Server, and OpenVMS.
These endpoint types do not define the endpoint description in the eTDescription attribute. This means that until recently, you could not search on the endpoint description. In addition, the search screen did not display the endpoint description.
You can now use the new well-known attribute %ENDPOINT_DESCRIPTION% for the affected connectors.
The DefaultEndpointSearch role definition has been updated, to allow the Default Endpoint Search screen to use the new well-known attribute. If you are upgrading from an older version of CA Identity Manager, import this modified screen after upgrading. For more information, see the Environment Changes section in your Upgrade Guide.
The Siebel Endpoint Property Sheet consists of ten property pages with seven being specific to the Siebel Connector. The following property pages are Siebel specific:
Use the Siebel Server Endpoint property page to register a Siebel Server.
Note: Siebel employee or user records that are used as proxy accounts in the SBL endpoint object just have a blank "New Responsibility" field.
Use the Mapping Table: User property page to configure custom mappings for user single-value fields. To edit the custom attributes in the custom attributes list box, click the Edit Button to bring up the Attribute Mapping Dialog. You can then add a new entry in a mapping table or edit an existing entry.
Note: When more than one item corresponding to the same CA Identity Manager attribute appears in a mapping table, it is not considered an error. The last item found in the mapping table will be taken. This can happen when a client other than Provisioning Manager is used.
Note: Only one user account type is supported per endpoint.
Use the Mapping Table: MVG property page to view and set mapping information for fields in user accounts and responsibilities associated with multi-value groups. This property page contains three similar groups of controls for the user’s positions, responsibilities, and organizations, and two groups of controls for responsibility’s views and organizations.
Use the Mapping Table: Position property page to configure custom mappings for Position's single-value fields.
Use the Mapping Table: Organization property page to configure custom mappings for Organization's single-value fields.
Use the Mapping Table: Responsibility property page to configure custom mappings for Responsibility's single-value fields.
Use the Mapping Table: Division property page to configure custom mappings for Internal Division's single-value fields.
Use the Mapping Table: View property page to configure custom mappings for View's single-value fields
Use the Mapping Table: LOV property page to configure mappings for list of values' single-value fields.
The Siebel User Property Sheet consists of six property pages with four being specific to the Siebel Connector. The following property pages are Siebel specific:
Use the Profile property page when managing your users and configuring custom mappings for user single-value fields. To edit the custom attributes in the custom attributes list box, click the Edit Button to bring up the Edit custom attribute Dialog. Depending on the type of control specified in the mapping table for the attribute being edited, you will see either combo box to select a value of the user attribute or an edit box to type in the value you want for the user attribute.
Use this property page to manage employee positions. You can view a list of all available and occupied positions. You can select a position in the All Positions list box and move it to the Occupied Positions list box to un-assign a position. You can also move a select position from the Occupied Positions list box into the All Positions list box to un-assign an employee position. To assign an employee's primary position, you can copy a selected position from the Occupied Positions list to the Primary Positions text box by clicking the v (Down) button.
Note: Only the user account of "employee" type can be associated with positions. Employee must hold at least one position.
Use this property page to manage user account's responsibilities. You can view a list of all available and assigned responsibilities. You can select a responsibility in the All Responsibilities list box and move it to the Assigned Responsibilities list box to un-assign a responsibility. You can also move a selected responsibility from the Assigned Responsibilities list box into the All Responsibilities list box to un-assign an employee responsibility. To assign an employee's primary responsibility, you can copy a selected responsibility from the Assigned Responsibilities list to the Primary Responsibility text box by clicking the v (Down) button.
Use this property page to manage employee's organizations. You can view a list of all available and assigned organizations. You can select an organization in the All Organizations list box and move it to the Member of list box to assign an organization. You can also move a selected organization from the Member of list box into the All Organizations list box to un-assign an employee organization. To assign an employee's primary organization, you can copy a selected organization from the Member of list to the Primary Organization text box by clicking the v (Down) button.
Note: Associating a user account with an organization is not required as this is done implicitly by Siebel. Primary organization cannot be removed from a user.
This Siebel Responsibility Property Sheet consists of four property pages with three being specific to Siebel.
Use this property page to view the Siebel responsibility name and the custom attributes associated with the Siebel responsibility.
Use this property page to manage a responsibility's organizations. You can view a list of all available and assigned organizations. You can select an organization in the All Organizations list box and move it to the Member of list box to assign an organization. You can also move a selected organization from the Member of list box into the All Organizations list box to un-assign a responsibility’s organization. To assign a responsibility's primary organization, you can copy a selected organization from the Member of list to the Primary Organization text box by clicking the v (Down) button.
Use this property page to manage responsibility's views. You can view a list of all available and assigned views. You can select a view in the All Views list box and move it to the Assigned list box to assign an view. You can also move a selected view from the Assigned list box into the All Views list box to un-assign a responsibility’s view.
There’s no primary view attribute for a responsibility object.
The Siebel Position Property Sheet consists of four property pages with three being specific to Siebel.
Use this property page to view the Siebel position name and the custom attributes associated with the Siebel position.
Use this property page to manage a position's parent position. You can view a list of all available positions. You can select a position in the All Positions list box and move it to the Parent Position list box to assign a parent position. You can also move a position from the Parent Position list box into the All Positions list box to un-assign a position’s parent position.
Use this property page to manage a position's division. You can view a list of all available divisions. You can select a division in the All Divisions list box and move it to the Associated Division list box to assign a division
The Siebel Organization Property Sheet consists of two property pages with one, the Organization property page, being specific to Siebel.
Use this property page to view the Siebel organization name and the custom attributes associated with the Siebel organization.
The Siebel View Property Sheet consists of two property pages with one, the View property page, being specific to Siebel.
Use this property page to view the Siebel view name and the custom attributes associated with the Siebel view.
The Siebel Internal Division Property Sheet consists of three property pages with two being specific to Siebel.
Use this property page to view the Siebel division name and the custom attributes associated with the Siebel division.
Use this property page to manage a division's parent division. You can view a list of all available divisions. You can select a division in the All Divisions list box and move it to the Parent Division list box to assign a parent division. You can also move a division from the Parent Division list box into the All Divisions list box to un-assign a division’s parent division.
The Siebel LOV Property Sheet consists of two property pages with one, the Properties property page, being specific to Siebel.
Use this property page to view the LOV code, type of value, and the display value.
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