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Acquire the PeopleSoft Machine Using the Provisioning Manager

You must acquire the PeopleSoft machine before you can administer it with CA IdentityMinder. When acquiring a PeopleSoft machine, perform the following steps.

From the Endpoint type task view:

1. Register the PeopleSoft machine as an endpoint in Provisioning Manager.

   Use the PeopleSoft Endpoint property sheet to register a PeopleSoft endpoint. From the PeopleSoft Endpoint tab, you must specify the Directory Name, Host Name of the application server, Jolt port number, PeopleSoft Username and password.

   Two additional attributes are provided on this tab. The Connection Timeout field specifies the amount of time that the connector must receive a response from PeopleSoft, due to a connection request, before considering that the request has failed. The Number of Retries field specifies the number of times a User Profile transaction will be repeated if the transaction failed due to PeopleSoft database deadlock errors.

   During the registration process, CA IdentityMinder identifies the PeopleSoft 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 to explore PeopleSoft user profiles, roles, and permission lists. The Exploration process finds all PeopleSoft user profiles, roles, or permission lists. You can correlate the user profiles with global users at this time, or you can wait to correlate them.

3. Correlate the explored user profiles with global users.

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

   1. CA IdentityMinder attempts to match the username with each existing global user name. If a match is found, CA IdentityMinder associates the PeopleSoft user profile with the global user. If a match is not found, CA IdentityMinder performs the next step.
   2. If the Create Global Users as Needed button is checked, CA IdentityMinder creates a new global user and associates the PeopleSoft user profile with the global user. If the Create Global Users as Needed button is unchecked, then CA IdentityMinder performs the next step.
   3. CA IdentityMinder associates the PeopleSoft user profile with the [default user] object.