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How to Describe an Administrator User Store

The Administrative UI must understand the database structure to locate SOA Security Manager administrators. You configure a directory configuration file (directory.xml) to describe the database to the Administrative UI.

SOA Security Manager supplies directory configuration templates that support different database types and structures. To create a directory configuration file, modify the template that most closely matches your directory structure. The templates are located in the DirectoryConfigurationSamples folder at the top level of the Administrative UI installation kit on the Technical Support site.

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Copy the configuration template to a new directory or save it with a different name to prevent overwriting it. You can then modify the template to reflect your database structure.

The directory configuration file contains one or more of the following sections:

• Directory Information

  Contains information about the administrator user store directory that is used by the Administrative UI.

• Provider Information

  Describes the user store that Administrative UI will manage.

• User Object

  Describes how users are stored in the administrator user store.

The directory configuration file has two important conventions:

• ##—Indicates required values.

  To provide all of the required information, locate all double pound signs (##) and replace them with appropriate values.

• @—Indicates values that the Administrative UI installer populates. Do not modify these values in the directory configuration file. The Administrative UI installer prompts you to supply the values when you install the Administrative UI.

Before you modify the directory configuration file, you need the following information:

• Table names for the user object
• A list of attributes in user profiles