CA Identity Manager Interview Questions

Basically, all the r12 versions can be upgraded to 12.6.5 version. It includes the following versions,

• CA Identity Manager version r12
• CA Identity Manager version r12.6 or 12.6 SPx
• CA Identity Manager version r12.5 or 12.5 SPx

In case of pre-r12 versions, you cannot upgrade to 12.6.5 directly. Instead, you have to upgrade to r12.5, r12 or r12.5 SP1 to SP6. Even the imsconfig versions of pre-12 should be upgraded to these versions prior upgrading to 12.6.5

In order to upgrade to CA Identity Manager 12.6.5, perform the following steps,

• The upgrade prerequisites of your system should be met for the verification
• You need to upgrade provisioning components
• The CA Identity Manager on the node or cluster should be upgraded
• Perform the up gradation of report server
• Finally, carry out post-upgrade configuration

Account templates can be found in each provisioning role of role planning activity. Accounts present in managed end points and the procedure to map the user attributes to accounts will be defined by account templates.

For each end point type multiple endpoints can be chosen and the assigned user of role will receive an account in the end point.

The Synchronization process in CA Identity Manager is used to ensure that the provisioning directory and CA Identity Manager User Store have data in common (matching data).

There are two types of synchronization such as inbound synchronization and outbound Synchronization. These can be used to handle changes from user store or either directory.

Synchronization tasks

Synchronization tasks can be classified into two types,

• User synchronization and
• Account synchronization

CA Identity Manager has several password management features as listed below,

• Password managers
• Password policies
• Self-service password management.

The Self-service password management has the following sub-features

• Change my password
• Self-registration
• Unlock account or Reset password
• Forgotten User ID
• Forgotten password
• Password synchronization on Endpoint accounts

• Bulk Loader tasks
• View submitted tasks
• Bulk task
• Logical Attribute Handler tasks
• Select Box Data tasks
• Email tasks
• JDBC Connection Management tasks