Flexible Target Connectors
Hitachi ID Management Suite® comes with built-in connectors, which can manage user objects, passwords and privileges, on the following types of target systems:
(1)Hitachi ID Management Suite includes a number of flexible agents, each of which is programmable (and thus can be said to embody an SDK (software development kit)). These agents allow organizations to quickly and with a minimum of programming or scripting, integrate Hitachi ID Management Suite with custom and vertical market applications.
Flexible agents expose a number of processes, including:
- Binding to an existing management API (application programming interface) (Java, Win32, Unix, COM, etc.).
- Screen-scraping Telnet, TN3270, TN5250, SSH and raw TCP socket connections.
- Navigating through web-based administration user interfaces over HTTP and HTTPS, with support for cookies, form parsing, redirects, etc.
- Executing arbitrary SQL code on Oracle, Sybase, MSSQL, DB2/UDB, Informix and other (ODBC) types of databases.
- Executing command-line administration programs on Unix (via local agent) and Win32 (on the Hitachi ID Management Suite server).
- Manipulating arbitrary attributes in an LDAP directory.
- Posting updates to a web service (SOAP or other XML dialect over HTTP or HTTPS).
- Sending messages using MQ Series.
Organizations that wish to write a completely new agent to a custom or vertical market application may do so using whatever development environment they prefer (J2EE, .NET, Perl, etc.) and invoke it as a command-line or web service target using the appropriate Hitachi ID Management Suite flexible agent.
An effort of 4 hours to 4 days is typically required to integrate Hitachi ID Management Suite with a custom or vertical market application. This compares favorably with competitors' products, where a custom Java or other 3GL connector must be written from scratch, taking weeks or months and requiring the Hitachi ID Management Suite administrator to have significant programming experience and the ability to learn how to use a new framework and API quickly.