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How You Acquire and Manage RSA 7.1 Endpoints

Before you can administer an RSA 7.1 endpoint with the Provisioning Manager, acquire the endpoint. When acquiring an RSA 7.1 endpoint, perform the following steps from the Endpoint task view:

1. Acquire the RSA server as an endpoint in the Provisioning Manager.
2. Explore the objects that exist in the endpoint.

   After registering the computer in the Provisioning Manager, you can explore its contents. The exploration process finds all RSA objects. You can correlate the accounts with global users at this time, or you can wait to correlate them.

3. Correlate the explored accounts to global users. You can:
   • Use existing global users. Use existing global users when there are already global users in the Provisioning Manager and you want to connect the existing global users to the RSA accounts
   • Create global users as needed. Create global users when there are no global users and you want to populate the Provisioning Manager from the RSA accounts.

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

   • The Provisioning Manager attempts to match the RSA account name with each existing global user name. If a match is found, the Provisioning Manager associates the RSA account with the global user. If a match is not found, the Provisioning Manager performs the next step.
   • The Provisioning Manager attempts to match the RSA account with each existing global user's full name. If a match is found, the Provisioning Manager associates the RSA account with the global user. If a match is not found, the Provisioning Manager performs the next step.
   • The Provisioning Manager associates the RSA account with the [default user] object or a new global user is created depending on your choice.