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EmpowerID is capable of inventorying and managing a wide variety of different types of protected resources. In order to configure which systems you wish to inventory and manage, on what schedule, and to keep track of in which system a protected resource exists, EmpowerID maintains a table named “ResourceSystems”. The Resource System Type is the definition of the connector for inventorying data from an external system. This differs from Security Boundary Types, which will be discussed later, which are the connector definition for Create, Update, Delete, and the attribute schema of the native objects directly managed in an external system.
EmpowerID itself contains protected resources for its pages, roles, APIs, etc. which are assigned as being in the EmpowerID Resource System. Each system that contains protected resources you wish to manage, must be registered as a Resource System in the EmpowerID Identity Warehouse and is assigned a unique ResourceSystemID and ResourceSystemGUID.
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