Using the Default Connectivity Applications

All default Connectivity application objects are located in Default folders. We strongly recommend that you do not work directly in the default Connectivity scenario or any of its folders. Instead, you should create your own scenarios and create your own connected directories and workflows within your own scenarios. The "Getting Started" chapter in the DirX Identity Tutorial provides detailed instructions on how to perform these tasks. When you follow this recommended procedure, all of your objects are created in folders within your own scenario; for example, workflows are created in the Workflows folder, connected directories are created in the Connected Directory folder and so on. DirX Identity automatically uses folders that have the name of your scenario.

Important note: The objects you create from default application objects will not be affected by DirX Identity upgrades for two reasons: each object has a unique identifier (and your created objects have these identifiers, too) and DirX Identity preserves all central objects from the previous release by copying them to a version-specific folder (but only if there were changes in these objects).

You should also be aware that some default Connectivity applications use central objects like Tcl scripts in the folder Configuration → Tcl. If you change these central objects, all of your copied default applications will be affected by your change. DirX Identity surrounds all property sheets that belong to this central area with a red border that contains the text This object might be shared because it belongs to the Configuration folder. If you do not want this behavior, you should make your copies independent from the central objects by creating local ones. See the section "Linking Objects" in the "Managing Provisioning Workflows" chapter in the DirX Identity Connectivity Administration Guide to learn more about thi concept.s

The default Connectivity applications consist of:

These workflows are part of the default Connectivity scenario, which you can view with Identity Manager’s Connectivity → Global view. The following figure illustrates the default Connectivity scenarios and its workflows.