Identity System Administration

7.1 Identity System Administration

Use the Identity System Administration to perform system administration tasks in Oracle Identity Manager, such as define workflow policies, home organization policies, and user capabilities, manage the schema of system entities, such as user, role, and organization, manage provisioning end-points and the schema of the supported objects, import/export Oracle Identity Manager configuration objects, and install/uninstall/upgrade connectors.

Top Pane

Use the links in the top pane to manage accessibility and sandboxes, access Oracle Identity Manager Help, and sign out from Identity System Administration.

Element	Description
Accessibility	Click to display the Accessibility dialog box that lets you select if you want to use a screen reader, use high contrast colors, and large fonts.
Sandboxes	Click to open the Manage Sandboxes page that lets you create, activate, deactivate, delete, publish, and import and export sandboxes.
Help	Click to open the Oracle Help for the Web page where you can search and view help topics for Identity System Administration pages.
Sign Out	Click to sign out of Identity System Administration.

Left Pane

Use the links in the left pane to open the corresponding details in the right pane for various system administration tasks, such as managing policies, provisioning configuration, system entities, system configuration, upgrade, and workflows.

Section	Element	Description
Policies	Approval Policies	Click to open the Approval Policies tab of the Policies page to create and manage approval policies if you have upgraded Oracle Identity Manager from an earlier release. An approval policy helps to associate request types with approval processes defined in the workflow service.
Provisioning Configuration	Reconciliation	Click to open the Reconciliation tab of the Event Management page to create and manage reconciliation events.
	Form Designer	Click to open the Form Designer page to create and manage forms of type users, roles, organizations, catalog, and resources that are not predefined in Oracle Identity Manager.
	IT Resource	Click to open the Manage IT Resource page to create and manage IT resources. An IT resource is composed of parameters that store connection information about a target system. Oracle Identity Manager uses this information to connect to a specific installation or instance of the target system.
	Generic Connector	Click to open the Manage Connectors page to create and manage generic connectors, which are basic connectors without advanced features.
	Application Instances	Click to open the Application Instances page to create and manage application instances. An application instance is a combination of an IT resource instance and resource object. Users have accounts and entitlements that are associated with application instance and not with the IT resource instance or resource object.
	Manage Connector	Click to open the Connector Management page to define, install, clone, upgrade, and uninstall predefined connectors in an Oracle Identity Manager environment. A predefined connector is designed for commonly used target systems, such as Microsoft Active Directory and PeopleSoft Enterprise Applications.
System Entities	User	Click to open the Manage User page to customize the User form, such as to create a User Defined Field (UDF) for the user entity.
	Organization	Click to open the Manage Organization page to customize the Organization form, such as to create a UDF for the organization entity.
	Role	Click to open the Manage Role page to customize the Role form, such as to create a UDF for the role entity.
	Catalog	Click to open the Manage Catalog page to customize the Catalog form, such as to create a UDF for the catalog entity.
System Configuration	Home Organization Policy	Click to open the Home Organization Policy page to create and manage policies based on which the home organization of a user is determined at the time of self registration.
	Self Service Capabilities	Click to open the Self Service Capabilities page to define self service capability policies to control what operations a user can perform for self.
	Lookups	Click to open the Search and Select: Lookup Type page to create and manage lookup definitions.
	Role Categories	Click to open the Role Categories page to create and manage role categories for categorizing roles for the purpose of navigation and authorization.
	Scheduler	Click to open the Scheduler tab of the System Management page to create and manage scheduled jobs.
	Notification	Click to open the Notification tab of the System Management page to create and manage notification templates.
	Configuration Properties	Click to open the System Configuration tab of the System Management page to create and manage system properties, which define the characteristics that control the behavior of Oracle Identity Manager.
	Export	Click to open the Export Configuration page to export Oracle Identity Manager configurations by using the Deployment Manager.
	Import	Click to open the Import Configuration page to import Oracle Identity Manager configurations by using the Deployment Manager.
Upgrade	Upgrade User Form	Click to open the Upgrade User Form to create and manage custom form fields for the user entity.
	Upgrade Role Form	Click to open the Upgrade Role Form to create and manage custom form fields for the role entity.
	Upgrade Organization Form	Click to open the Upgrade Organization Form to create and manage custom form fields for the organization entity.
	Upgrade Application Instances	Click to open the Upgrade form to create and manage custom form fields for the application instance entity.
Workflows	Approval	Click to open the Approval Workflow Rules page to manage approval workflow rules that determines whether or not request approval is required for an operation and which workflow is invoked for a specific operation.