Reconcile Between two Database Tables

Question

Hello All,
I have two resource adapters configured. Each for a seperate table in a database. I loaded accounts from one table, and used the the persons full name as the account ID. This makes it easy to see who is represented in the accounts page. I am now trying to bring in some data stored in a second table. I added a correlation rule, in an attempt to associate entries in the table based on a unique id. The id is being stored in IDM as an attribute called uouuid. It is in the second table as a field named uuid. I have created a correlation rule as follows:
<cond>
  <ref>account.uouuid</ref>
  <list>
    <new class='com.waveset.object.AttributeCondition'>
      <s>UUID</s>
      <s>equals</s>
      <ref>account.uouuid</ref>
    </new>
  </list>
</cond>I configured the reconciliation policy to use the new rule, and when I reconcile on the new table, all of the entries show up as UNMATCHED. Is there something I am doing wrong? It seems like this should be matching the data... Does anyone have any advice or can they show me where I am going wrong?

Answer 1

Hi There JimBeard e.o.,
I'm having sort of the same issue you had, but really don't know how to solve it.
Probably the biggest cause for this is my complete lack of knowledge regarding java.
Let me explain what i'm trying to achieve:
- I've a mysql database with in one table (users) my user_id and extra fields like e_mail, password and domain_id, etc
- In the same database there's another table (domains) with the domain_id and a field domain_name.
- I want to use this database as my "source user database", if something changes in this database it should also change in IDM.
- The imported users in IDM from this source should have attributes like email, domain_name and some others (sometimes concatenated fields as well) so, this is where my main issue lays now: the value of domain_name should be "mapped?" to the users attribute domain_id.
- When the above all works i want to push the users including attributes (or some of them) from IDM to external ldap databases, getting them in sync and have all the advantages of using IDM.
What i accomplished so far by reading the (huge!) administration manual of IDM:
- I've got both database tables defined as resources
- I've managed to map attributes on a per-table basis in the schema (so for the users table i've got e_mail, password, domain_id & for the domains table i've got domain_id and domain_name)
- All users are imported in IDM, by using the "import from resource" feature (including the mapped attributes from the users table/resource).
- figured out how to write my own (uhh.. copy /paste and adjust ;)) correlation rules and howto upload them (but where to find any GOOD documentation about this?!).
I've searched and read up through most of the topics in this forum but none really gives me enough information to accomplish my wishes (could be me not understanding of course ;))
All in all.. i've spend hours on this and now hoping someone can give me a clear (step by step) handout. Preferrable by using the web-gui, but when needed i will dive into the java /xml.
Thanks in advance and please ask when something is unclear in my (kinda long) story.
Regards,
Joost