Compartir a través de

Configure Attributes

  • Artículo

For this procedure, in Management Agent Designer, on the Configure Attributes page, you select the attributes that you want to synchronize, add additional attributes (for certain text file types), and edit or delete existing attributes. Management Agent Designer automatically identifies certain attribute properties such as multi-valued, base64-encoding, attribute types string, Boolean, number, distinguished name (also known as DN), and binary. You can change many of these properties to a more desired configuration for synchronization. To complete this procedure, you must be logged on as a member of the FIMSyncAdmins security group.

To configure attributes

  1. In Management Agent Designer, on the Configure Attributes page, under Attributes, verify that all of the attributes that are contained in the template input file appear in the list.

  2. To configure an anchor attribute, click Set anchor.

  3. In the Set Anchor dialog box, do the following:

    • If the template input file contains a distinguished name (also known as DN) that you want to use as an anchor attribute, select the Use distinguished name as anchor attribute check box.

    • If you want to use another attribute, in Available attributes, click the attribute that you want to use as an anchor, click Add, and then click OK.

If you want to manually configure attribute properties, do any of the following:

Edit attribute properties

  1. In Attributes, click the attribute that you want to edit, and then click Edit.

  2. Do any of the following:

    • Change the attribute name in the Name text box. This option is not available if the attribute name was defined in the sample input file.

    • Change the attribute type in the Type list box.

    • If the attribute is multi-valued, select Attribute is multi-valued.

    • To specify the minimum number of characters allowed in the attribute, type a numerical value in Minimum character length.

    • To specify the maximum number of characters allowed in the attribute, type a numeric value in Maximum character length.

Configure advanced properties

  1. In Attributes, click the attribute that you want to edit, and then click Advanced.

  2. Do any of the following:

    • If the template file contains a hierarchical distinguished name attribute, select Input file contains a LDAP distinguished name, and then, in Distinguished name attribute, click the attribute to be used as the anchor attribute.

    • For fixed-width, delimited, and attribute-value pair text file types, in Define object class, you can change the value that defines the object type in Fixed object type value.

    • For fixed-width, delimited, and attribute-value pair text file types, in Define object class, you can change the value that defines the object class in Object class attribute.

    • For fixed-width, delimited, and attribute-value pair text file types, in Define change type attribute, if your template file contains a change type attribute, that attribute will be automatically selected to specify the change operation upon entry of the attribute in the connector space. You can select a specific attribute by clicking an attribute in Change type attribute, and then, if the value for change operations are different from the default, type the appropriate operation for Modify, Add, and Delete.

    • If your management agent will perform direct export attribute flow of string attributes, it may be necessary to normalize certain characters prior to reimport. To convert lowercase characters to uppercase characters, select Convert lowercase characters to uppercase. To replace accented characters with non-accented variant characters, select Replace accented characters with non-accented variants. If you select either or both of these options for an existing management agent, you must perform a full synchronization for the subsequent run.

Warning

Verify each attribute has the correct type and multi-valued setting. Failure to do so can lead to loss or corruption of data.

Note

For management agents for LDIF and DSML, the custom data input file must contain an attribute called objectClass when you run a full import. If your custom data input file does not contain an attribute called objectClass, an error is generated during the import run and the import fails.

Note

An attribute can have a combination of multiple or binary (including base64) values.

Note

Anchor attributes must be single-value attributes. The order of values in a multiple-value attribute is not guaranteed. An anchor attribute can only be of string or binary attributes.

Note

For text file formats where the distinguished name (also known as DN) is configured as an anchor attribute, do not allow object renaming during a delta run of the management agent. If object renaming might occur during a full or delta import, select an anchor attribute other than the distinguished name.

Note

For attribute-value pair text file formats, Management Agent Designer automatically identifies multiple-value data.

Note

New attributes can be added only for attribute-value pair, DSML, and LDIF text file formats. You can delete only attributes that you add manually.

Note

For delimited and fixed-width text file formats, multiple-value attributes must contain header rows. If you do not include header rows and you select the check box in the Multiple Value column, you can produce duplicate attribute names. If you do not select the Use first row as header names for input file check box on the Delimited File Format page, Management Agent Designer assigns a name in the following format: attr000, attr001, attr002, and so on. To change these assigned names, double-click the name and type a new name in the Edit Attribute dialog box. It is recommended that you use attribute names that indicate an attribute's contents so that it is easier to map attributes in later steps. If a header row is not present, you cannot specify multiple-valued attributes. Multiple-valued attributes must be in sequential order. If they are not, you receive an invalid format error.

Note

For LDIF and DSML, FIM decodes BASE64 encoded values as if they are UTF-8. These values are then converted to Unicode for import into the metaverse.

Note

For LDIF created from Active Directory using LDIFDE, the change type attribute will always be Full.

Note

For all text file-based management agents, except LDIF, when you run a management agent run profile in full import mode, the change type attribute (if configured) is ignored. When you run a management agent run profile in delta mode, the change type attribute (if configured) is applied. For management agents for LDIF, the change type attribute is checked when you run a full import. if the change type attribute is present, it must be Add. For all management agent types, if an error occurs in the processing of a change type attribute, an error message is written to the event log.

Note

For all text file-based management agents, except LDIF and DSML, you cannot configure a multi-valued attribute as a change type attribute.

Note

Number attribute types are Int64 integers with values ranging from negative 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 through positive 9,223,372,036,854,775,807.

Note

The table lists character and size limits.

Attribute Size

Name

128 char.

Value

No size limit for attribute values in a connector space. 900 bytes for attribute values in the metaverse

Constructed anchor name

128 char.

Constructed anchor name values

900 bytes

See Also

Concepts

Configure Attribute Flow Rules
Define Object Types
Using Management Agents