I have been diving into IdentityIQ lately & use some community wisdom. The official guides are informative; they do not always cover the nitty-gritty of real-world use cases. I want to know about how others have handled more complex aspects of IdentityIQ.
I want to know Best approach for custom connector development, How to manage layered role structures effectively. Ways to troubleshoot slow performance during certification processes. Tips for safely pushing updates in a live setup.
Also, having recently completed a Power BI Course, I have started viewing identity data differently & am wondering if anyone has applied analytical thinking or reporting strategies in IdentityIQ.
Want to hear about any tools, scripts or hard-earned lessons from your own experiences. Anything you wish you had known earlier?
Hi @Sofiayakaya and welcome to the SailPoint developer forum! Sorry your post didn’t seem to get traction or responses. I think I can give some guidance on that and your questions!
First thing to note. You seem to be asking about IdentityIQ (IIQ) but you posted in the Identity Security Cloud (ISC) topic. It is important to note in case you were unsure that SailPoint offers two flagship products for Identity. ISC is their modern cloud platform for handling all things Identity. IIQ is their ( hate to say legacy, so I’ll say original) On-Prem product. The two products share many goals and features but they are quite different in architecture and design so you will want to be sure you are focused in on the product that you are thinking of implementing or supporting.
If you ask specific questions you will likely get many answers on how to handle complex use cases with IIQ. IIQ offers a ton of extensibility with Rules, Workflow, Scripts, Custom connectors, APIs, basically the full gambit. You could use IIQ to turn on your coffee pot in the morning if you were really determined. But it is tough to answer this broad a question without more specifics.
In IIQ the best approach to custom connector development is to:
Have a descent understanding of Java development. All custom connectors in IIQ are written in Java
Review and understand the SailPoint IIQ Javadoc. This will explain in detail all of the tools available to you for java development.
Follow some guides on custom connector development in IIQ. There are tons of examples on the old community forum.
One note of caution… with a shift to more modern app development and cloud based apps I find I am required to build custom applications in IIQ much less often than I used to 5 or 10 years ago. Most apps that you will be asked to connect to expose REST / SCIM / JDBC APIs these days and can be connected to via these code-light type connectors. I would highly recommend getting very familiar and practicing the SailPoint IIQ Web Services connector and JDBC connector over digging into custom connector development.
I am not a data analytics guy myself but SailPoint ISC (again not IIQ) has a fairly new platform Access Intelligence Center that is all about this. I actually think it is even built on PowerBI (don’t hold me to that)
I hope some of this helps. Good luck with IIQ / ISC
