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AWS Connector

Introduction

Description

AWS Connector allows to manage the Amazon AWS IAM (Identity and Access Management)

Managed Systems

This connector is specific for integration with the Amazon AWS IAM (Identity and Access Management) through the CLI AWS IAM

For more information to check if your system may be synchronized with this connector you do not hesitate to contact us through our Contact form

Prerequisites

It is needed a AWS IAM user with access and privileges to the required operations.

It cannot detect password changes to be propagated to other systems.

Download and install

This addon is located in the Connectors section and its name is AWS plugin.

For downloadmore and install the addon you could review our generic documentationinformation about thisthe process: installation process you can visit the Addons installationGetting started page.

Agent Configuration

Basic

Generic parameters

After the installation of the addon, you may create and configure agent instances.

To configure this AWS connector you must select "Amazon WS" in the attribute "Type" of the generic parameters section in the agents page configuration.

For more information about how you may configure the generic parameters of the agent, see the following link: Agents configuration

Custom parameters

Below there are the specific parameters for this agent implementation:

Parameter
Description
Access Key Access key provided by the AWS IAM account
Secret Key
 Secret key provided by the AWS IAM account
AWS Endpoint AWS endpoint provided by the AWS IAM account
Enable debug Two options: [ Yes / No ]. When it is enabled more log traces are printed in the Synchronization Server log

Attribute mappings

This connector could manage Users and Roles.

Properties

The following properties are defined for each object type:

Property
Meaning
preventDeletion (optional)

Two options: [ True / False ]. If it is "true", it prevents to delete any no longer needed object

Attributes

Users

The following attributes can be mapped on User objects

Attribute
Value
userName User name
path User path
arn AWS arn (read only)
createDate Creation date (read only)
passwordLastUsed Passsword last use (read only)
userId Internal user id
Groups

The following attributes can be mapped on Role (AWS Group) objects:

Attribute
Value
groupName Group name
path Group path
arn AWS arn (read only)
createDate Creation date (read only)
groupId Internal group id

For more information about how you may configure attribute mapping, see the following link: Soffid Attribute Mapping Reference

Triggers

&&TODO&&Pending to be documented.

Load triggers

&&TODO&&Pending to be documented.

Account metadata

&&TODO&&Pending to be documented.

Operational

Monitoring

After the agent configuration you could check in the monitoring page if the service is running in the Synchronization Server, please go to:

  • Start Menu > Administration > Monitoring and reporting > Syscserver monitoring

Tasks

Authoritative

If you are checked "Authorized identity source", an automatic task to load identities from the managed system to Soffid is available, please go to:

  • Start Menu > Administration > Monitoring and reporting > Scheduled tasks

And you will something like "Import authoritative data from <AGENT_NAME>".

Reconcile

If your are configured the "Attribute Mapping" tab with some of our objects: "user or role", an automatic task to synchronize these objects from the managed system to Soffid is available, please go to:

  • Start Menu > Administration > Monitoring and reporting > Scheduled tasks

And you will something like "Reconcile all accounts from <AGENT_NAME>".

Synchronization

About the synchronization of the objects, there are two possible options:

  • If you are checked the generic attribute "Read Only" in the "Basics" tab, only the changes in the managed systems will be updated in Soffid. We recommend this options until the global configuration of Soffid will be tested.
  • If you are not checked the generic attribute "Read Only" in the "Basics" tab, all the changes in Soffid or the managed system will be updated in the other. Note that this synchronization must be configured in the "Attribute mapping" tab correctly.

For more information about how you may configure the generic parameters of the agent, see the following link: Agents configuration

 

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