An operation binding is additional logic, such as a stored procedure or a script, that you can bind to a particular operation to specialize the handling of that operation. You can specify the timing of the logic invoked by the stored procedure in relation to the operation, that is, will it run before, after, or instead of the operation.
When CA IAM CS performs any operation, CA IAM CS verifies whether there are any operation bindings that tell it to invoke some logic before, instead of, or after that operation.
For example, imagine you want to add a user to an endpoint. You have the user's given name and family name. On the endpoint system, however, the record for that user is an attribute made up of a particular combination of their given name and family name. To resolve this situation, you can create a script that combines the two names to match the endpoint format and then, using an operation binding, specify that this script must run before any search you perform on the endpoint system.
An operation binding can invoke a stored procedure for Add, Modify, Delete, and Rename operations.
An operation binding can invoke a script for Add, Modify, Delete and Rename operations, and an additional 16 operations such as Search, Lookup, Modify-Assocs, Delete-Assocs, Activate, Deactivate, and such.
A script in this instance can either be a called function stored in a global script, or a stand-alone scriptlet. Calling functions that exist within a global script is best practice because you can then reuse those functions for other operation bindings.
You can apply an operation binding to any object class. For example, if you want to record all modify operations to either an account object or a group object in a log file, you could use a single operation binding and apply it to both.
You can apply multiple operation bindings with the same timing (before, after, instead of) to a single object. For example, invoking two stored procedures to run before a particular operation.
Note: Connector Xpress does not support binding an operation to a compound class.
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