MidPoint Guide
1. What is MidPoint
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The Main site is here.
MidPoint is an identity management and governance platform. It is a comprehensive, feature-rich system, developed and maintained by a professional team of full-time engineers. MidPoint is open source software, available under the terms of Apache License and European Union Public License.
2. Quickstart Guide
The official Quickstart Guide can be found here.
3. Terminolgy
3.1. User
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User: user record (profile) in midPoint database. This data record usually contains unified data, synchronized from multiple source systems.
3.2. Resource
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Resource: is a remote system that is connected to midPoint. It may be a source system that feeds data to midPoint. Or it may be a target system, that is managed by midPoint. Any given resource can also function as both a target and source at the same time.
3.3. Acount
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Account: is a data structure (user profile) that resides on resource (source or target system). MidPoint reads data from accounts, or manages the accounts.
3.4. Role
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Role: gives privileges to users. A role may also specify which accounts on which resources a user should have. Read more about role lifecycle management here.
3.5. Connector
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Connector: is a configuration that allows MidPoint to connect to a resource. A list of connectors can be found here.
5. Create Resources
MidPoint needs to connect to source and target systems. Both source and target systems are known as resources in MidPoint. A collection of MidPoint sample resource configurations can be found in this repo