Integration with Meta Directories
P-Synch® can be integrated with any meta directory product.
The value of integrating a meta directory with P-Synch can be summed up as follows:
- a meta directory customers often also want password synchronization
and self-service password reset, offered by P-Synch.
- ID-Synch® extends a meta directory's functionality by adding connectors
to systems such as mainframes, Unix servers and ERP
applications. It also introduces a user provisioning workflow
engine and a consolidated, web-based user administration console.
- P-Synch deployment can be used to quickly, inexpensively and
reliably build up "JOIN" data, connecting different login IDs
on different systems back to enterprise-wide user profiles. As a
result, P-Synch can significantly expedite a meta directory's deployment.
- Where a meta directory is already deployed prior to installing P-Synch,
Hitachi ID Management Suite® can lookup user profile data right in a meta directory, rather than
constructing its own user profiles.
Microsoft exposed a WMI interface to Microsoft ILM at Hitachi ID's request to support this type of integration and Hitachi ID ships a binary interface that allows P-Synch to pull user profile data from Microsoft ILM, over WMI, in real time, using this facility.
- ID-Synch includes built-in connectors / agents to a large variety of target systems, including mainframes, ERP applications, Notes ID files and more. a meta directory can be configured to target these systems indirectly, through ID-Synch, without developing new, redundant management agents.