EIM associations

This information explains how you can use associating identities in different user registries.

An Enterprise Identity Mapping (EIM) association is an entry that you create in an EIM domain to define a relationship between user identities in different user registries. The type of association that you create determines whether the defined relationship is direct or indirect. You can create one of two types of associations in EIM: identifier associations and policy associations. You can use policy associations instead of, or in combination with, identifier associations. How you use associations depends on your overall EIM implementation plan.

To learn more about working with associations, review the following information:

• Lookup information
  Use this information to learn how you can use this optional data to further identify a target user identity that Enterprise Identity Mapping (EIM) APIs can use during a mapping lookup operation to further refine the search for the target user identity that is the object of the operation.
• Identifier associations
  Use this information to learn about how to use identifier associations to describe relationships between an Enterprise Identity Mapping (EIM) identifier and the user identities in user registries that represent that person. An identifier association creates a direct one-to-one mapping between an EIM identifier and a specific user identity. You can use identifier associations to indirectly define a relationship between user identities through the EIM identifier.
• Policy associations
  Use this information to learn about how to use policy associations to describe a relationship between multiple user identities and a single user identity in a user registry.