Connecting SailPoint and ACF2

Establish a secure connection between SailPoint and the ACF2 system. The information in this section describes how to configure a direct connection.

To connect SailPoint with ACF2, perform the following tasks:

Adding the Source in SailPoint

To connect to SailPoint, perform the following steps. Once the connection is made, you can configure it to meet your company's needs.

To configure a new source:

1. Sign in to SailPoint.
2. Go to Admin > Connections > Sources.
3. Select Create New.
4. Search for the connector by entering the name in the search box, and then select Configure.
5. In the Source Name field, enter a unique and descriptive name for your source. Source names cannot exceed 128 characters.
6. In the Description field, provide additional details about the source to help distinguish it from similar sources. This field allows a maximum of 2,000 characters.
7. In the Source Owner field, begin typing the name of an owner. Matches appear after you type two or more letters. For more information, refer to Assigning a Source Owner.

8. Under Connection Type, select Direct Connection or Flat File.

   • Direct Connection - A direct connection fetches data from the Virtual Appliance Cluster you choose as the application connector for the source. A direct connection configuration allows for real-time updates. For more information about configuring and deploying virtual appliances, refer to the Virtual Appliance Reference Guide.
   • Flat File - Select the flat file if no connector is available, or if another system restricts the connection. This option allows only reading and aggregating data as a generic/delimited application. Provisioning activity is unsupported, and additional configuration pages like connection settings and aggregation settings are unavailable.

9. If you selected Direct Connection, in Virtual Appliance Cluster, select the virtual appliance cluster that will be used as the application connector for the source.

10. (Optional) Select a governance group to grant its members source or role sub-admin level oversight of the source and its access. For more information, refer to Creating and Managing Governance Groups.
11. If this source represents a primary system containing your organization's personnel records, select the Authoritative Source checkbox. For more information, refer to Creating Identity Profiles.
12. Select Continue. The source is created, and you are navigated to the Source Setup > Base Configuration page. Continue to configure your connected source there.

Base Configuration

Provide the base configuration parameters. Information you entered in the Create New Source dialog is automatically entered into the fields in the Base Configuration page. You can edit this information if necessary.

1. Enter a unique name and description for the source.

2. In the Source Owner dropdown list, select the identity that owns this source.

   • To find a source owner, begin entering their name.

3. In the Virtual Appliance Cluster dropdown list, select the virtual appliance to use when communicating with your organization's systems. For more information, refer to SailPoint Virtual Appliances.

4. (Optional) If enabled for your organization, select the Use a Credential Provider checkbox to manage the source's authentication using a credential provider.

   Note

   To add a credential provider, go to Admin > Connections > Credential Providers. For more information about credential providers, refer to Credential Providers.

5. Configure the authentication to allow SailPoint to connect to the source. Refer to Connection Settings for more information.

6. (Optional) In the Governance Group for Source Management dropdown list, select a governance group to associate with this source. For more information about governance groups, refer to Associating Governance Groups with a Source.

7. (Optional) Choose whether to enable or disable provisioning for the source. Provisioning is disabled by default.

   • Enable Provisioning - Set the toggle to Enabled to allow the source to create, update, and deactivate accounts in the connected source system.

   • Disable Provisioning - Set the toggle to Disabled to disable provisioning for the source. Disabling provisioning will prevent the creation, updating, or deactivating of accounts on this source.

8. Select Save.

Connection Settings

Configure the Connector Gateway, which the connector uses to connect to and interact with the ACF2 managed system.

Connector Gateway Settings

Provide the following details for Connector Gateway:

1. In the Host field, enter the host name or the IP address of the system where the Connector Gateway is installed.
2. In the Port field, enter the port which the Connector Gateway is listening to.

3. (Optional) Enable Use TLS for communication between Virtual Appliances and Connector Gateway.

   For more information on enabling and configuring the TLS communication, refer to TLS Communication and TLS Configuration on Virtual Appliances.

   • You must configure the Connector Gateway. For more information, refer to Installing and Configuring Connector Gateway.
   • Configure AT-TLS on the machine where the ACF2 Connector is installed. For more information, refer to Implementing AT-TLS Policy for Mainframe Connector Communication.

4. (Optional) Enable the Disable Hostname Verification option to disable the hostname verification during ACF2 Communication over TLS. If the Disable Hostname Verification is enabled, then the Mainframe Connector doesn't validate the CN of the subject name. By default it is disabled.

5. If the Disable Hostname Verification option is not enabled, then provide the Certificate Subject.

   Certificate Subject - Provide the Common Name (CN) value of the certificate if the subject of the certificate is not the same as the Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) of the Connector Gateway host. Doing so configures the connector to validate the authenticity of the Connector Gateway before establishing the TLS communication channel.

   The connector checks the CN of the subject of the certificate with the value provided in application configuration as entered in the Certificate Subject field.

   If the Certificate Subject is not provided, then the connector validates the CN of the subject against the FQDN of the machine hosting the Connector Gateway.

ACF2 Connector Settings

To connect with ACF2 System:

1. In the Connector Name field, enter the name of the connector as configured in the ACF2 connection configuration.
2. In the Username field, enter the name of the service account that authenticates the ACF2 System.
3. (Optional) In the Password field, enter the password of the service account.
4. Select Save.

Aggregation Settings

Configure the filters that the ACF2 connector uses to aggregate accounts.

For more information about aggregation, refer to Loading Account Data.

1. (Optional) In the Start Filter Condition for Accounts field, enter the string to filter the aggregated account information.
2. Select Save.

Review and Test

Perform a test to confirm the connection to SailPoint.

1. Go to Review and Test.

2. Confirm that the entries in each field are correct.

   If you note any mistakes, return to the section and make corrections.

3. Select Test Connection.

SailPoint Application Onboarding

SailPoint application onboarding enables you to easily onboard new applications and create sources following the successful onboarding of a discovery source. To use this feature, continue to Discovered Applications in the SailPoint user interface.

For more information, refer to Application Onboarding in the SailPoint SaaS documentation.

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