Data pools and data sources in Identity Manager

Data sources in Smart ID Identity Manager provide the connection to the data stored in internal tables in Identity Manager or any external source, such as LDAP, JDBC, SCIM or CSV files. In order to access the data sources, data pools are needed. Data pools are abstract representations of the data including lists of fields and their data types. The core templates are are an interpretation of the data pools. They are used for defining the core objects in Identity Manager, for example, cards, persons and so on.

See also Configure Identity Manager.

Example: Data sources, data pools and core templates in Identity Manager

Core templates	Describe how to use data from data pools Defines states, for example, a person can be active, inactive... Defines starting processes Defines forms, that are used to show the data
Data pools	Are abstract representation of data from a data source Contains lists of fields, for example, FirstName, LastName Defines data types of fields
Data sources	Provide the connection to the data stored in internal tables in Identity Manager or any external source, such as LDAP, JDBC, SCIM or CSV files.

Configure data pools and data sources

See the following instructions for more information: