Starting a Certification Campaign

When the start date of the campaign in state Campaign is in preparation (PREPARING) is reached, the Certification Campaign Controller workflow starts the campaign.The workflow is normally started according the schedule.But you can also start it manually using DirX Identity Manager: in the Connectivity view, navigate to the workflow entry and then select Run Workflow from the context menu.

The Campaign Controller workflow collects the users to be certified along with their privilege assignments, finds approver(s) for each user, stores their certification tasks in the campaign subtree and notifies the approvers.

If something fails – for example, an approver cannot be found for a user to be certified – the workflow creates the certification task, but sets its state to FAILED.PREPARE and notifies the campaign owner.The campaign owner can then manually fix the problem and change the state to PREPARED or RETRY.PREPARE.When the Certification Campaign workflow runs again, it re-evaluates this certification task and – if successful – changes the state to RUNNING.

Approvers can then work on their tasks and certify the user assignments using DirX Identity Web Center or DirX Identity Business User Interface.