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Acquire an OS/400 Machine Using the Provisioning Manager

You must acquire the OS/400 machine before you can administer it with CA IdentityMinder.

From the OS/400 Endpoint Property Sheet

1. Register the machine as an endpoint in CA IdentityMinder.

   Provide the OS/400 server machine name, the user ID and password when acquiring an OS/400 system.

   Note: Before acquiring the endpoint, make sure that it is registered to use the Java connector. To do this:

   1. In Connector Xpress, right-click the OS400 endpoint
   2. Select Set Managing CS
   3. Select Java Connector

   During the registration process, CA IdentityMinder identifies the OS/400 machine you want to administer and gathers information about it.

2. Explore the objects that exist on the endpoint.

   After registering the machine in CA IdentityMinder, you can explore its contents. Use the Explore and Correlate Endpoint dialog. The Exploration process finds all OS/400 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 by choosing either of the following Connectors:
   • Use existing global users
   • Choose this option when there are already global users in CA IdentityMinder and you want to connect the existing global users to the OS/400 accounts
   • Create global users as needed

     Choose this option when there are no global users and you want to populate CA IdentityMinder from the OS/400 accounts.

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

   1. CA IdentityMinder attempts to match the user profile name with each existing global user name. If a match is found, CA IdentityMinder associates the OS/400 account with the global user. If a match is not found, CA IdentityMinder performs the next step.
   2. CA IdentityMinder attempts to match the user profile name with each existing global user's full name. If a match is found, CA IdentityMinder associates the OS/400 account with the global user. If a match is not found, CA IdentityMinder performs the following step.
   3. CA IdentityMinder associates the OS/400 account with the [default user] object or a new global user is created depending on your choice.

Note: More information on enabling Secure Socket Layer (SSL) communications between the Provisioning Server and the OS/400 system exists in the Provisioning Manager Help.