How to Perform Impact Analysis

Use the impact analysis function to create a report that provides details on the impact these changes can have on the rest of your product implementation.

Note: The Assignment and Provisioning numbers are the same for simple roles. However, the numbers are different when there are manually written provisioning plans. The numbers are also different when the profiles use OR terms because provisioning only picks the first terms using OR.

When you click the Submit with Impact Analysis from the Role Editor, the changes are rolled into a work item that is assigned to you, an analysis task is launched, and a link is created inside the work item that points to the task results. You can navigate from the work item to the task result to check on the status of the task as it is running.

Impact analysis can also be performed from the Task page using the Role Overlap Analysis tasks.

Overlap analysis returns information on the following overlap facets:

Attributes

Overlap between extended attributes and a some system attributes

Local Assignment

Overlap between assignment rules and profiles defined directly on the role (not inherited)

Hierarchical Assignment

Overlap between both local and inherited assignment rules and profiles

Local Provisioning

Overlap between provisioning side effects defined directly on the role

Hierarchical Provisioning

Overlap between both local and inherited provisioning side effects

To perform impact analysis

1. Click an impact analysis work item in your inbox to open the Role Approval page.

2. Review the summary information of the work item.

3. Review the comments associated with the work item and, optionally, add comments.

4. Review the details of the changes being analyzed by the impact analysis task associated with the work item.

5. Click Click to view analysis task results to display the task results page containing the actual impact information obtained by the task.

6. Review the impact information and click Return to Work Item to return to the work item and make a decision on the request.

7. Make a decision:

• Approve – apply the creation or modification based on the content of the impact analysis task results.

• Reject – discard any changes made to the role based on the impact analysis results.

• Forward – forward the impact analysis work item to another user. Entering the first few letters of a name displays a select list of valid users with names starting with those letters. Select a name from the list. Add comments if needed.

• Cancel – cancel the work you have done on the work item.