Before connecting EmpowerID to an external directory, please review the Getting Started with Directory Systems topic. The topic walks you through the prerequisites you need to complete before connecting to an external directory for the first time. These prerequisites include:
If you have already connected EmpowerID to another external directory, you can skip these prerequisites. |
EmpowerID provides connectors for a wide range of user directories and resource systems. As an administrator, you can use these connectors to quickly connect EmpowerID to your organization's identity-aware systems and applications. When you do so, you create an account store for that application in the EmpowerID Identity Warehouse and use that account store to configure how you want EmpowerID to manage the identity information in that system. |
EmpowerID includes an Amazon Web Services (AWS) connector that allows organizations to bring the data (user accounts, groups, roles and computers) in their AWS domain to EmpowerID, where it can be managed and synchronized with data in any connected back-end user directories. When EmpowerID inventories AWS, it creates an account in the EmpowerID Identity Warehouse for each Amazon user account, a computer for each Amazon computer, a group for each Amazon group, and a special group called an RBAC-Only group for each Amazon role.
Additionally, EmpowerID provides Provisioning policies or Resource Entitlements that allow you to automatically provision Amazon accounts for any person within your organization based on their role. For more information on Resource Entitlements, see Configuring Provisioning Policies.
Prerequisites: In order to connect EmpowerID to AWS, you must have an AWS domain with an account that EmpowerID can use to connect to AWS. (EmpowerID recommends using a dedicated service account.) At a minimum, this account must have a policy with permission to read the user, group and computer data in AWS. If you plan to use EmpowerID to provision, deprovision and modify this data in AWS, the profile needs to have create, update and delete permissions as well. In addition, you must provide EmpowerID with the following information:
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After ensuring you have met the prerequisites specified in the Getting Started with Directory Systems topic, you connect EmpowerID to AWS by doing the following:
Before connecting EmpowerID to a directory system, you should determine whether you want EmpowerID to provision Person objects from the user accounts it discovers in the account store. If you do, then you should be able to answer the following questions before turning on inventory.
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On the AWS Settings page that appears, enter settings to connect to your Amazon instance to allow EmpowerID to discover and connect to it.
Click Save.
If the values entered in the Account Store Details screen are incorrect, EmpowerID will not be able to authenticate to Amazon and the connection will fail. |
EmpowerID creates the Amazon connection and opens the Account Store Details screen for the Amazon account store. This screen contains settings for configuring how EmpowerID manages the Amazon account store. Configuring this screen is discussed in the next section.
If you want EmpowerID to provision Persons from the user accounts using the Account Inbox (recommended), you need to enable the Account Inbox permanent workflow. This is demonstrated below.
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