SAFR AMAG Integration Guide

Integrated SAFR AMAG is only available on Windows.

Integrating SAFR with AMAG allows your SAFR system to pull identities and access control credentials from AMAG.

Requirements

Add Additional Licenses

Repeat this for the Data Connect and the XML Open modules.

  1. Click the Maintenance tab.
  2. Under Licensing select System Licenses.
  3. Click Add.
  4. Enter the serial number from the license PDF file for that module.
  5. Try internet activation, else follow instructions as above during registration.
  6. Enter your activation code to activate the modules license.

SQL Export

DataConnect Export Setup

  1. Log in to Symmetry as a user with the System Manager role. (There is a default user called Manager; its password is the same as its username.)
  2. Select Operation, then Data, then Data Export.
  3. Select all items that need to be exported and click OK.

Add Export SQL User

This task is best done using SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio) which is freely downloadable from this link: Download SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) - SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)

  1. After you have installed the management studio, log in using Windows credentials.
  2. Expand out the Security section, right click on Login, and select New Login…

  3. Enter the Login Name and Password. You may also want to disable the password policy, expiration, and/or change checkboxes. (Disabling those checkboxes is optional.)

  4. Click OK.
  5. Select User Mapping, and add db_datareader to both the multiMax and multiMaxExport databases.

  6. Click OK.
  7. Right-click on each database (multiMax and multiMaxExport) and click properties.
  8. Select Permissions and click on the username created in the earlier step.

  9. Add SELECT and EXECUTE so that the effective permissions are as follows.

  10. Click OK to save changes.

Set Up External Identity Synchronization

To set up identity synchronization between SAFR and AMAG, do the following:

  1. Open the SAFR Desktop Client.
  2. Click on the Tools menu in the upper left corner of the client, and select the System Configuration tool from the drop-down menu.
  3. Check the Set up External Identity synchronization box. The following dialogue will appear:

  4. Enter information for the following fields:
    • User directory name: The name of your SAFR user directory.
    • External identity host: Select AMAG from the drop-down menu.
    • Host Address: The IP address or hostname of the target AMAG machine.
    • Host Port: The port number that the target AMAG machine is listening on.
    • Host User Id: The User Id of a user who has the credentials to log into the AMAG machine.
    • Host Password: The Password of a user who has the credentials to log into the AMAG machine.
  5. Click the Apply button.