[Midpoint-dev] Inducement updates are not propagated to User after reconciliation
Ivan Noris
ivan.noris at evolveum.com
Tue Feb 3 09:23:52 CET 2015
Hi Anand,
I have experimented a little with similar setup.
First, I took one of my customer roles, which work. I added two
attribute mappings to the role construction for OpenDJ resource, such as:
<attribute>
<ref>ri:preferredLanguage</ref>
<outbound>
*<strength>strong</strength>*
<expression>
<value>sk</value>
</expression>
</outbound>
</attribute>
<attribute>
<ref>ri:carLicense</ref>
<outbound>
*<strength>strong</strength>*
<expression>
<value>XXX</value>
</expression>
</outbound>
</attribute>
I've already had an user with this role assigned, so after I reimported
the role definition (because I've changed the XML file with my role),
I've edited the user and checked "reconcile" checkbox, and saved. After
saving, user surely had both attributes (preferredLanguage and
carLicense) set to predefined values. Before the save, the values were
not defined for that OpenDJ account, as there were never the part of
that role before.
Next I edited the role again through Configure - Repository objects and
changed the values (e.g. preferredLanguage to "en" and carLicense to
"YYY"). Then I edited the same user and checked "reconcile" checkbox and
saved. After saving, the preferredLanguage was set to "en" and
carLicense had two values (both the original and the new "YYY" because
it's multivalue field).
Later I just made another change in the attribute value and it still worked.
So it seems to be working as it should. *But*, while testing, I
discovered https://jira.evolveum.com/browse/MID-2194. The symptom is as
follows: whenever you edit role through GUI, the strength for attributes
is lost. It's enough just to edit+save role using Role editor. Configure
- Repository objects (XML editor) is fine.
When I look at your role export, there is *no strength* for any of the
attributes in outbound mappings. I believe it might be caused by the bug
I've just reported. So please, either edit the role using Repository
objects XML editor until we fix it; or please create the roles as XML
files and import them to midPoint. It should be ok if you export your
existing roles and fix them in XML files and then reimport.
Best regards,
Ivan
On 02/02/2015 04:24 PM, Anand Kothekar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As per our discussion I tried to give <strength> tag in role but it
> didn't worked for me.
>
> Basically we had two host attribute values in inducement and member
> user also had the same host membership, then after modifying the
> inducement I reconciled the user but no change in host attribute of
> user's ldap account.
>
> I have attached the sample role xml, please have a look and let me
> know if I am doing anything wrong.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Anand Kothekar
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Ivan Noris <ivan.noris at evolveum.com
> <mailto:ivan.noris at evolveum.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi Anand,
>
> please see inline:
>
> On 01/23/2015 06:17 AM, Anand Kothekar wrote:
>> Hi Ivan
>>
>> First of all Ldap connector supports Auxiliary object classes. I
>> have tested it and it works for me.
>>
>> Secondly, The host attribute is defined in resource schema and I
>> have added it in Schema Handling but i do not have any outbound
>> mapping right now (quite usual for our requirement, most of the
>> resources have such attributes that cannot be mapped to any focal
>> object in midpoint).
>>
>> Is it possible that i can map whatever user has entered (instead
>> of mapping the host or any other attribute to midpoint's focal
>> object) to target resource attribute in outbound mapping.
>
> If user enters the value in the form, you don't need mappings.
> Mapping are used to set the target attribute value according to
> some other attribute value or expression.
>
> Some example:
> If you need to copy user/givenName attribute value to LDAP's sn
> attribute, you need outbound mapping in resource schema handling.
> If you need to generate LDAP's sn attribute value by taking
> user/givenName attribute value and (for example) lowercase all
> attributes and remove diacritics, you need outbound mapping in
> resource schema handling.
> If you want the user to set the LDAP's host attribute to
> user-defined-value, i.e. in the GUI form, manually, you don't need
> any mapping for this attribute. If user enters the value manually,
> provisioning will store the value to the resource. It is NOT
> remembered in midPoint. There is no expression how to derive the
> value, thus no mapping. And midPoint has no way of forcing the
> attribute value to contain the user defined value during the
> reconciliation, because the user defined value is stored only on
> LDAP, not in midPoint. When outbound mappings are used, the target
> attribute value can be derived from some source
> attribute(s)/expressions, co midPoint can enforce these values.
>
> Maybe there is another way how to achieve what you need if I
> understand it correctly. Define an extended attribute in User (by
> extending schema) and let the user set/modify this extended
> attribute. Then you can have schema handling mapping in resource,
> and you can thus use strong mapping strength.
>
> Best regards,
> Ivan
>
>
>>
>> What my concern is there is no way in UI to set the strength and
>> doing it at policy level is quite unmanageable(resource is one
>> but inducement will be thousands).
>>
>> So just to summarize
>> - we want this to be done at resource level.
>>
>> - i think it is achievable if we can define outbound mapping
>> so that user entered value is mapped to target attribute.
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>> Anand
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 8:36 PM, Ivan Noris
>> <ivan.noris at evolveum.com <mailto:ivan.noris at evolveum.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> as you have the mapping in role, not in resource, you should
>> have the mapping set as strong for "host" attribute in *all*
>> applicable roles (that are setting this attribute).
>>
>> There will be no configuration in resource, because there is
>> no mapping for that attribute at the resource level. The
>> strength always applies to the mapping definition.
>>
>> You mentioned that this is auxiliary object class. Not sure
>> if the LDAP connector supports such classes...
>>
>> Regards,
>> I.
>>
>>
>> On 01/22/2015 03:49 PM, Anand Kothekar wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Yes, the host attribute will be entered by the user who is
>>> managing the midpoint or it will be populated in inducement
>>> of a role by our custom code . It will never be automated to
>>> get the value from any focus object like User.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Anand
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 7:56 PM, Ivan Noris
>>> <ivan.noris at evolveum.com <mailto:ivan.noris at evolveum.com>>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Anand,
>>>
>>> can you please be more precise about "value entered by
>>> user"?
>>> Do you mean that the host and/or(?) description
>>> attributes are expected to be managed by the user who is
>>> editing the user in midPoint, on the right side of User
>>> details in Accounts part? Are these expected to be set
>>> always explicitly by the user? No automation from
>>> midpoint user attributes?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> I.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 01/22/2015 02:03 PM, Anand Kothekar wrote:
>>>> Hi Ivan,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your inputs.
>>>>
>>>> I tried it by adding this constraint in inducement
>>>> itself and it worked but I want to do this at resource
>>>> level.
>>>>
>>>> I tried adding the same in resource but the thing is I
>>>> do not have any outbound mapping defined for these
>>>> attributes (as I use the value entered by user ) now if
>>>> I add only strength property in outbound it gives me Error.
>>>>
>>>> Can you help me with pointing to the right kind of
>>>> mapping I need to do.
>>>>
>>>> Here is the host attribute snippet from my resource:
>>>> <attribute>
>>>> <ref
>>>> xmlns:ri="http://midpoint.evolveum.com/xml/ns/public/resource/instance-3">ri:host</ref>
>>>> <matchingRule
>>>> xmlns:mr="http://prism.evolveum.com/xml/ns/public/matching-rule-3">mr:stringIgnoreCase</matchingRule>
>>>> <outbound>
>>>> <strength>strong</strength>
>>>> </outbound>
>>>> </attribute>
>>>>
>>>> I need to know how I can map value entered by user.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Anand Kothekar
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 5:52 PM, Ivan Noris
>>>> <ivan.noris at evolveum.com
>>>> <mailto:ivan.noris at evolveum.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Anand,
>>>>
>>>> can you please define the mappings for description
>>>> and host attributes as strong?
>>>>
>>>> Something like:
>>>>
>>>> <attribute>
>>>> <ref>ri:description</ref>
>>>> <outbound>
>>>> * <strength>strong</strength>**
>>>> *. . .
>>>> </outbound>
>>>> </attribute>
>>>> Then run the reconciliation again please.
>>>>
>>>> If you already have this configured and it does not
>>>> work, please share the attribute mappings here.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> I.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 01/20/2015 11:15 AM, Anand Kothekar wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have been playing around with role inducements
>>>>> and found some issue, need some quick help as
>>>>> inducements are quite important for our solution.
>>>>>
>>>>> _Issue:_ Inducement updates are not propagated
>>>>> properly to User after reconciliation.
>>>>>
>>>>> _Details:_ When user is a assigned a role having a
>>>>> resource inducement, User gets appropriate
>>>>> accounts and induced group memberships. Now
>>>>> Changing some attributes in role inducements are
>>>>> not propagated after reconciling User.
>>>>>
>>>>> _Steps Followed:_
>>>>> - I added and ldap resource inducement in a
>>>>> new Role*. *I provided some attributes
>>>>> like LdapGroups, Host, and description.
>>>>> - User is assigned to this Role. User gets the
>>>>> ldap account, appropriate group memberships and
>>>>> other attributes specified in inducement (i.e.
>>>>> description ,host(multivalued attribute from an
>>>>> Auxiliary object class)). So all good till now.
>>>>> - Now I updated the Resource inducement for
>>>>> example changed the description, added few groups,
>>>>> added few host.
>>>>> - After inducement modification I reconciled the
>>>>> User, and following are the results:
>>>>>
>>>>> - Group membership is updated appropriately.
>>>>>
>>>>> - Description is not updated
>>>>>
>>>>> - host attribute is not updated
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Can you guys please check and let me know if I am
>>>>> doing something wrong or is it a problem somewhere
>>>>> in my resource or some other issue with midpoint
>>>>> system.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards
>>>>> Anand Kothekar
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Ing. Ivan Noris
>>>> Senior Identity Management Engineer
>>>> evolveum.com <http://evolveum.com> evolveum.com/blog/ <http://evolveum.com/blog/>
>>>> _____________________________________________
>>>> "Semper Id(e)M Vix."
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Ing. Ivan Noris
>>> Senior Identity Management Engineer
>>> evolveum.com <http://evolveum.com> evolveum.com/blog/ <http://evolveum.com/blog/>
>>> _____________________________________________
>>> "Semper Id(e)M Vix."
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Ing. Ivan Noris
>> Senior Identity Management Engineer
>> evolveum.com <http://evolveum.com> evolveum.com/blog/ <http://evolveum.com/blog/>
>> _____________________________________________
>> "Semper Id(e)M Vix."
>>
>>
>
> --
> Ing. Ivan Noris
> Senior Identity Management Engineer
> evolveum.com <http://evolveum.com> evolveum.com/blog/ <http://evolveum.com/blog/>
> _____________________________________________
> "Semper Id(e)M Vix."
>
>
--
Ing. Ivan Noris
Senior Identity Management Engineer
evolveum.com evolveum.com/blog/
_____________________________________________
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