Good morning!
I am trying to use Web Services to add a role to VIA, which should be a matter of importing an XML file.
I can MANUALLY import an XML role file under Roles. I know the file I am trying to import works. I see an option under Web Services for importMetadata, but nothing for importing roles. I tried the importMetadata option to import a role, and it doesn't see to work. Does anyone know of an option to import a role from an XML file using Web Services?
Thank you!
Marc
Hi Boris, thank you for your reply!
There is some additional logic we wanted to apply when creating a role, so I wrote a role mining tool that was able to go into active directory and apply rules differently than VIA's rules. From the this tool that I wrote, I can generate an XML role file that is importable if I go in through Roles > Actions > Import Roles. The manual import works great. What I'd hoped to do to make it a little more seamless is directly push the newly created role into VIA using a Web Services call, but there doesn't seem to be a call that exists for this. I was hoping that there was an undocumented Web Services call that could handle this, or that a metadata import of some kind could facilitate this, but I haven't been able to find anything.
Thanks again!
Marc
Not familiar with such option.
I suggest you consider to re write your custom code and instead of generating a XML file, write to a staging DB and then use the role collector to collect it to RSA G&L (Via).
The answer is probably not the one you wanted to hear, but I think the role collector is a better approach because:
My 2 cents
From the help section:
The importMetaData service is not designed for importing roles. It mimics the UI functionality of importing configuration other than roles (i.e attributes, collectors and etc..)
Consider using a role collector to create a new role in the system.
Can you describe your use case in more detail?