Connecting SailPoint and RSA Authentication Manager

To connect SailPoint with RSA Authentication Manager, 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

Provide the information required for SailPoint to connect and interact with RSA Authentication Manager.

1. In the Service Account field, enter the name of the service account used by the administrator to connect to RSA Authentication Manager server.
2. Enter the Password for the service account.
3. Enter the unique Command Client User and Command Client Password. This information is created when you install RSA Authentication Manager. To obtain this information, refer to Obtaining the Command Client User and Password.

4. Enter the Hostname or IP Address. You can validate the host name of the RSA authentication manager provided in source configuration during TLS communication using the REST API. To validate the hostname, set the enableHostNameVerification attribute to true.

   Note

   For more information on SailPoint's REST APIs, refer to Best Practices: REST API Authentication and REST API - Update Source (Partial) in the SailPoint Developer Community.

5. Enter the Port number.

6. Select Save.

Account Settings

Specify the Accounts' scope that will be managed by the configured source.

1. Specify the name of the Realm. A realm is an organizational unit that includes all of the objects managed within a single deployment, such as users and user groups, tokens, passwords, and agents.
2. Specify the Identity Source for the realm. An identity source is a repository that contains user and user group data. Each user and user group in a deployment is associated with an identity source. For the most up-to-date information, refer to RSA Authentication Manager Identity Sources in the RSA documentation.
3. (Optional) Specify the Security Domain to manage. Security domains are used to organize and manage users and enforce system policies. The default is SystemDomain.
4. (Optional) Select Search Sub Domains to turn this setting on or off. Turn this setting on if child domains also need to be managed. When this is turned off, you see a black X. If it is turned on, you see a blue ✔. The default is off.
5. Enter the Page Size to specify the number of accounts or groups to fetch per iteration through RSA Authentication Manager. The default is 500.
6. (Optional) Select Enable Partition to turn this setting on or off. When you enable partitioning, account aggregation can be split into paritions and aggregation is performed with the filters specified in the Partition Filter Values field. Only accounts that match the filter are aggregated. When this is turned off, you see a black X. If it is turned on, you see a blue ✔. The default is off.
7. (Optional) Enter the Partition Thread Count. This specifies the number of items in each partition group.
8. (Optional) Select a Partition Filter Attribute from the drop-down. This is the user attribute to partition users across multiple threads during account aggregation.
9. (Optional) Enter the Partition Filter Values to filter the account aggregation. To add multiple entries, enter the filter and then press the Enter key.

10. (Optional) Select Delta Aggregation to enable Delta Aggregation setting on or off.

    Note

    Delta aggregation is not supported for radius profile and group account attributes.

11. 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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