You are absolutely right Todor, this will be a temp solution while we plan on migrating to a higher version on IDM, but while that happens we need to keep the integration between IDM 7.0 and GRC 10.1
Is there anything out there that can be reused instead of recreating the connector?
If i remember correctly the 7.0 version had only mx_provision, mx_deprovision and mx_modify -tasks so the integration would have be built on these tasks. As there is no validate add task to hang the GRC call GRC would have to do provisioning.
7.0 datamodel is different than 7.2, I haven't studied in detail but would guess there is enough difference also in the tables that store tasks/jobs etc that the 7.2 GRC provisioning framework would not even import to 7.0. You would need to set-up a 7.2 on the side to study the framework to see how to duplicate the tasks..
VDS in the middle is another thing as it would need to be able to communicate with your custom connector in 7.0.
If you must stick with 7.0 maybe the GRC connector of 7.1 is worth a try.. But you would probably need also older VDS.
Depending on the level of your existing customisations and what data from 7.0 is worth keeping the upgrade to 7.2 is not necessarily big thing compared to the effort of building the interim custom interface.. The real question is how big and complex is your 7.0 implementation?
Unfortunatelly, at this point IDM migration is not an option.
I was considering probably take one of the existing GRC 5.3 connectors and extend the connector to make it work with 10.1, I am hoping VDS is going to let me play with this without getting into too much coding modifications.
If that works, then the standard connector for the IC and VDS should complete the cycle.
Well, that is what I am hoping for. What do you think?
I don't think 7.0 has what it takes to integrate with GRC 10 for the reasons that Tero mentioned. I would strongly suggest checking out 7.1, as GRC 10 did not even exist when IDM 7.0 was released by SAP (It was really just a rebranded version of the MaXware Identity Center Version 😎 This could be the logic that you can take back to your organization regarding the requirement to upgrade.. , Does the PAM for SAP IDM even allow 7.0 and GRC 10?
I think there's small chance that it would work on 7.0 IdM with 7.1 VDS and GRC framework from 7.1 IdM. But none of those versions aren't probably downloadable any more.
If I remember correctly in one of the 7.0-implementations we used 7.1 VDS for better VDS-performance on Oracle.
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