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Creating Asset Types
Asset Types are special categories of resources that are not automatically provisioned through provisioning policies, but must always be requested. Asset Types can be calls to EmpowerID dlls or other custom .NET assemblies that provision/de-provision actual resources that exist in the Resource table of the EmpowerID Identity Warehouse, like shared folders, user accounts, and Exchange mailboxes or they can be simple creations of objects (generic assets) added to the Identity Warehouse for tracking purposes only, such as a mobile phone or a company laptop.
This topic demonstrates how to create Asset Types in EmpowerID and is divided into the following activities:
To create a generic asset type
From the Navigation Sidebar of the EmpowerID Web interface, navigate to the
Find Assets page by expanding
Resources and clicking
Assets. From the
Find Assets page, click the
Actions tab and then click the
Create Asset Type tile.
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New Asset Type form that appears, do the following:
- Type an appropriate display name, name and description for the asset type in the Display Name, Name and Description fields, respectively.
- Select Generic Asset from the Resource Type drop-down.
- Click Submit.
From the grid of the
Select Resource System screen that appears, click the
Generic Asset System item to select it and then click
Submit.
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OK to close the Operation Execution Summary.
To create an Asset Type for an AD User Account
As a prerequisite to creating an Asset Type for AD user accounts, you first need to connect EmpowerID to Active Directory. Doing so creates the necessary security boundary around the asset type. For step-by-step instructions, see
Connecting to Active Directory.
From the Navigation Sidebar of the EmpowerID Web interface, navigate to the
Find Assets page by expanding
Resources and clicking
Assets. From the
Find Assets page, click the
Actions tab and then click the
Create Asset Type tile.
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New Asset Type form that appears, do the following:
- Type an appropriate display name, name and description for the asset type in the Display Name, Name and Description fields, respectively.
- Select User Account from the Resource Type drop-down.
- Click Submit.
In the
Select Account Store lookup that appears, search for your Active Directory account store. From the grid, click the record returned for the account store to select it and then click
Submit.
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Select a creation location lookup that appears, search for the OU in which you want the AD user accounts to be created, click the node for that location in the tree-view and then click
Submit.
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Asset Configuration form that appears, select
user from the
ObjectClass drop-down, type the LDAP path to the OU you selected above and then click
Submit.
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OK to close the Operation Execution Summary.
To create an Asset Type for an Exchange Mailbox
As a prerequisite to creating an Asset Type for Exchange Mailboxes, you first need to connect EmpowerID to an Active Directory that has an Exchange Organization. Doing so creates the necessary security boundary for the asset type. For step-by-step instructions, see
Connecting to Active Directory.
From the Navigation Sidebar of the EmpowerID Web interface, navigate to the
Find Assets page by expanding
Resources and clicking
Assets. From the
Find Assets page, click the
Actions tab and then click the
Create Asset Type tile.
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New Asset Type form that appears, do the following:
- Type an appropriate display name, name and description for the asset type in the Display Name, Name and Description fields, respectively.
- Select Exchange Mailbox from the Resource Type drop-down.
- Click Submit.
In the
Select Resource System lookup that appears, click the record for the appropriate Exchange organization to select it and then click
Submit.
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Asset Configuration screen that appears, do the following:
- Select the domain in which the user must have an account from the Depends on having account in the domain drop-down. Users must have an AD account to receive an Exchange Mailbox asset.
- Select the appropriate AD asset type from the Provision this asset if missing dependency drop-down. If the user does not currently have an AD account, EmpowerID will first provision an AD account from the specified asset type. Please note that you must first create an Asset Type Request for an AD user account before any values will appear in this drop-down.
- Click Submit.
Click
OK to close the Operation Execution Summary.
To create an Asset Type for a home folder
As prerequisites to creating an Asset Type for shared folders, you first need to connect EmpowerID to your Active Directory and add a resource system for a Windows Server resource type to EmpowerID. For step-by-step instructions, see
Connecting to Active Directory and
Adding File Servers.
In addition, you must have at least one shared folder on the server as any shared folder assets created will be placed under the selected parent folder.
From the Navigation Sidebar, navigate to the
Assets management page by expanding
Resources and clicking
Assets. From the
Assets management page, click the
Actions tab and then click the b>Create Asset Type tile.
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New Asset Type form that appears, do the following:
- Type an appropriate display name, name and description for the asset in the Display Name, Name and Description fields, respectively.
- Select Shared Folder from the Resource Type drop-down.
- Click Submit.
From the grid of the
Select Resource System screen that appears, click the
Windows Server resource system item to select it and then click
Submit.
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Asset Configuration form that appears, do the following:
- Click Create as Share and then click Create as Share again if the folder is a shared folder.
- Select Hide Share if the folder is a shared folder that you want to hide on the File server.
- Select the drive letter for the Shared folder from the Map to Drive drop-down. EmpowerID writes this value to the user's AD account.
- Select the AD account store in which the shared folders are to be created from the Depends on having account in the domain drop-down.
- Select the prerequisite AD asset type from the Provision this asset if missing dependency drop-down. As users must have an AD user account before they can have a home folder, EmpowerID will provision the appropriate user account if the user does not yet have one.
In the
Shared Folder lookup that appears, search for the parent shared folder under which the shared folder assets are to be created, click that folder in the grid to select it, and then click
Submit.
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OK to close the Operation Execution Summary.
In the New Asset Type form that appears, do the following:
Click OK to close the Operation Execution Summary. 
In the Select a creation location lookup that appears, search for the OU in which you want the AD user accounts to be created, click the node for that location in the tree-view and then click Submit. 
In the Asset Configuration form that appears, select user from the ObjectClass drop-down, type the LDAP path to the OU you selected above and then click Submit. 
Click OK to close the Operation Execution Summary. 
In the Asset Configuration screen that appears, do the following:
In the Asset Configuration form that appears, do the following:
Click OK to close the Operation Execution Summary.