How do I get my user identity data into View500?
View500 provides a number of ways for populating the Directory as follows:
a) View500 has an integrated web based Directory User Agent (webDUA) that can be used as a Self Service portal to allow users to update their own user data. What gets updated can be controlled. Similarly what gets deleted or changed can also be controlled
b) View500 can accept LDIF files (Lightweaght Directory Interface Files) allowing data produced from another Directory or Directory aware application to be loaded into View500
c) View500 fully support X.525 replication. This allows View500 to receive in real time data from another Directory server supporting X.525. As an example View500 has been deployed by a number of Defence Agencies and used in the coalition Border directory role providing linkage to both the US Defence and UK Ministry of Defence Directory servers with both these being from different suppliers but both using the X.525 replication protocol
d) View500 has an Integrated synchronisation and integration tool called the Stream DUA (sDUA). This allows View500 to be linked up to external data sources with some data mapping and correlatisation providing object to object synchronisation. As an example for one Australian customer the sDUA has been used to provide a synchronisation and correlisation link with a Lotus Notes LDAP directory in Denver in the US and Notes LDAP Directories in Chile and Sweden
e) For more complex integration and synchronisation tasks, eB2Bcom View500 partners with Radiant Logic utilising Radiant Logic's ICS server (Integration & Correlation). RadiantOne ICS simplifies managing the life cycle of a user's digital identity by providing identity synchronization.
ICS builds a common identity and provides a global profile out of existing identity sources, providing metadirectory-type functionality with easy integration of disparate data sources and without the strain of costly data replication. Within ICS, data sources are mapped, data is virtualized into a common schema, and correlations between identity profiles are established. Identity data is aggregated into a central hub and synchronized across the enterprise according to customized business logic.
So RadiantOne ICS provides two key services to an identity infrastructure:
1) Object Synchronization - supporting object replication ("directory to directory" or "database to database") as well as complex identity synchronization across heterogeneous systems.
2) Identity Correlation - correlate, link identities, and match them to application requirements
Great, but can I also synchronise that data from my authoritative sources?
Absolutely. This can be achieved by either using View500 StreamDUA or if
the requirements are more complex using the Radiant One ICS server (see
above).
IHow do I handle the situation where I have multiple identity sources but
need to correlate that data into a virtual namespace?
In these circumstances View500 has the ability to create multiple schema
running on the same View500 Server and in fact has a Virtual Directory
capability using component matching to join data from virtual directory
schemas on the one server. An alternative if that data is on seperate
external authoritative sources is to use eB2Bcomn View500 partner Radiant
Logic Radiant One virtuyal Directory which supports the Virtual namespace
approach. A third approach is using the Radiant One ICS server to
synchronise data into View500 and the use View500 as the Persistent
virtual namespace.
How do I handle changes in the Directory such as moving Non Leaf entries?
Does this require a major synchronisation and correalisation task?
No unlike most other LDAP Directories, this does not require a
synchronisation and co-eralisation task and can actually be completed very
simply with just three clicks using View500 Movemet of Government changes
facility. This facility allows a Directory administrator to move non leaf
entries from one branch or location of the Directory to another with just
three actions. These changes can be done in less rthan 30 seconds. Full
referential integrity is maintained with all directory data moved
includingreferences and links. For the Military & Government this is the
way that Taskgroups or Battle Groups can easily be created, moved or
di-solved according to opertational tempo requirements or in order to
meet ORBAT (Order of Battle) requirements. Similarly re-organisations of
Government Agencies or DEpartments is easily achieved with just three
clicks whilst still maintaining all referential links.
Can I run a number of different schemas in the one directory server?
Yes View500 supports multiple schemas running on the same View500 server
simultaneously and also support Virtual join of that data into a common
namespace.
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