SaaS Connectivity: Building Your First Connector

[philip-ellis]

@mike818148

Hello Philip,

Thanks a lot. This is an very interesting topic. May I ask some questions here:

• What’s the environment setup required here, I assume it’s Windows, but I am confused how can we run the commands (such as sail, spcx), should we install any package locally?
• I noticed in one of the post, it mentioned there is a SailPoint CLI utility, but the link seems not exists any more.
• And if I understand correctly, this SaaS connector only handles endpoints connectivity which sits on cloud in IDN? it seems to WebServices connector of IIQ but in JavaScript, am I correct?
• Also, do you have any idea, can such framework also used to connect application which is on-premise?

• Environment – All you need is visual studio code and node/npm installed to get going. For full documentation, see here: SaaS Connectivity | SailPoint Developer Community
• The CLI tool can be found here: Releases · sailpoint-oss/sailpoint-cli · GitHub
• SaaS is a cloud based connector, so it is running in the IDN cloud. Because of this, the best use cases are for connecting to other cloud based resources
• Right now to connect a SaaS connector to an on-prem source, you would need to somehow expose that on-prem source to the internet. It is probably best to use the VA in those cases since you have better control over access. As @bwong1 mentioned during the roadmap session, a SaaS connector that can run on-prem might be available in the longer term future.