Service provider API

The service provider API provides custom connectors. The connectors can be used from the IBM Security Identity Manager provisioning platform or any other Java-based provisioning platform that supports the same interface.

Service provider APIs define the interface that the IBM Security Identity Manager adapter needs to implement and communicate to remote adapter agents. The adapter agent implementation does not rely on IBM Security Identity Manager APIs except for the set of asynchronous notification APIs provided under Service Provider APIs. The following operations are included in the interface between the provisioning platform and the connector:

• Add
• Change password
• Delete
• Modify
• Restore
• Search
• Suspend
• Test

The provisioning platform performs all of the operations needed to determine the actions and their parameters that are to be run against resources. The connector runs those operations on the resource within requirements that are related to the resource.

Parent topic: Application programming interfaces