What's new in this release

The Federated Directory Server and the System for Cross-Domain Identity Management (SCIM) service are the key new features in Security Directory Integrator v7.2.

Federated Directory Server

Federated Directory Server is a service that simplifies the integration of directories with IBM Security Directory Server. It automatically synchronizes information about users and groups in the source endpoints with IBM Security Directory Server. We can use the Federated Directory Server console, which is a web-based user interface to configure the connection settings, endpoints, and synchronization schedules. We can also configure pass-through authentication. When a user logs in to IBM Security Directory Server, the login credentials are verified by the password that is stored in the endpoint. Thus, the need for password migration and management are eliminated. See http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v2r1/topic/com.ibm.IBMDI.doc_7.2/fds.html.

System for Cross-Domain Identity Management (SCIM) service

SCIM is a standard that defines schema and protocol for identity management. SDI v7.2 provides a SCIM service to connect to IBM Security Directory Server. The SCIM standard was created to simplify user management in the cloud by defining a schema for representing users and groups. It also defines a REST API for all other basic operations. See http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v2r1/topic/com.ibm.IBMDI.doc_7.2/scim.html.

SCIM client connector

The SCIM connector works like other SDI connectors, but behind the scenes it passes REST calls and uses SCIM operations. We can use the SCIM connector to allow SDI solutions to read and write to servers that support the SCIM protocol. See http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v2r1/topic/com.ibm.IBMDI.doc_7.2/referenceguide236.htm.

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