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The Universal Connector is an out-of-the-box standard connector like the AD connector that connects to a middleware repository or queue that sits between the EmpowerID Identity Warehouse and the custom system. The Universal Connector does not connect EmpowerID directly to a target resource system for inventory or data discovery. Rather, the Universal Connector serves as a bridge between that system and EmpowerID. This bridge is an intermediate SQL database , and is in fact the object to which the Universal Connector connects. Since this intermediate database is always identical for each custom application, no custom code is required for EmpowerID to bidirectionally inventory and manage users, groups, roles, and locations. In this model, organizations export the data they want EmpowerID to manage from their custom identity store to the intermediate database via their preferred technology, including scripting, an ETL tool like Microsoft SSIS, or code in the language of their choice. EmpowerID then inventories the data from that database and provisions objects in EmpowerID, such as user accounts, groups, locations, business roles, and EmpowerID Persons. From a high level, the flow for this can be represented by the below image:

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The universal connector was designed mainly to provide a way to get account and group information from an application or system into EmpowerID and maintain synchronization with the least amount of effort and knowledge of EmpowerID required. We have provided a change log changelog capability to allow the system to synchronize data back out to the external system but it still requires the DBA to write the middleware process to read the log and post the changes to the external system. In other words, it can be done but is not the best choice.

EmpowerID offers an out-of-the-box universal flat file connector that can take CSV files as source data and then export CSV files back out for outbound changes. This feature is covered in a separate learning topic in this training. It is up to you, the administrator to decide if this code-free flat file connector is a better fit.

Demonstration

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