[midPoint] Reconcile Task vs. Importing Accounts Task

[Florin. Stingaciu]

I recently switched from a Import Users task to a Reconciliation task
because I found that the reconciliation task was a little easier on memory
while it's running. However, yesterday I discovered this user on my
resource (AD) that was created a while back but wasn't imported into
midPoint. I am currently in the process of running an Import Users task to
see if it it will import this user. I've never had this issue before, and
nothing has really changed in my resource definition. Hence why I was
curious in regards to the exact difference between these tasks. Any further
details or clarification would be very appreciated.

Thanks,
-F

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 8:04 AM, Jason Everling <jeverling at bshp.edu> wrote:

> In my case, I found out the recon tasks do 'create' new users from the
> resource so I had to define the <synchronization> element on the resource
> and since we DO NOT want to create/import new users from the resource, only
> link existing accounts, the unmatched situation is blank.
>
> JASON
>
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 1:51 AM, Ivan Noris <ivan.noris at evolveum.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Florin,
>>
>> from what I know now, the reconciliation will also apply "cached" changes
>> from midPoint to resource (i.e. when resource was down at the provisioning
>> time). Import will not.
>>
>> I hope my coleagues who implemented that could describe this more
>> precisely.
>>
>> Both will work with unmatched situation.
>>
>> Ivan
>>
>> On 10/19/2016 08:40 AM, Florin. Stingaciu wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm a little curious as to what exactly is the difference between these
>> two tasks. Particularly in the scenario where the target resource has
>> inbound rules only. The wiki is not very clear for these two tasks.
>>
>> Will a reconciliation task still import accounts in the "unmatched"
>> situation?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -F
>>
>>
>>
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