Integrate with Database User Management (DB2)

The Database User Management (DB2) connector integrates Oracle Access Governance with IBM DB2 database user management tables. You can establish a connection between IBM DB2 and Oracle Access Governance by entering connection details and configuring the connector. To achieve this, use the Orchestrated Systems functionality available in the Oracle Access Governance Console.

Prerequisites

Before you install and configure a Database User Management (DB2) orchestrated system, you should consider the following pre-requisites and tasks.

Certified Components

The DB2 system can be any of the following:

IBM DB2 UDB 9.x.

Supported Operations

The Database User Management (DB2) orchestrated system supports the following operations:

Create user
Add schema
Revoke schema
Add tablespace
Revoke tablespace

Create a DB2 System User Account for Database User Management (DB2) Orchestrated System Operations

Oracle Access Governance requires a user account to access the DB2 system during service operations. Depending on the system you are using, you can create the user in your system and assign specific permissions and roles to the user.

For DB2 database:

Create a DB2 user agserviceuser at the OS level.

Assign the following permissions and roles to the service user created:

GRANT SELECT on TABLE syscat.schemata TO agserviceuser;

GRANT SELECT on TABLE syscat.tablespaces TO agserviceuser;

GRANT CREATEIN,DROPIN,ALTERIN ON SCHEMA 'SCHEMA_NAME' TO agserviceuser;

GRANT CONNECT,BINDADD,DBADM,CREATETAB,CREATE_NOT_FENCED_ROUTINE,IMPLICIT_SCHEMA,LOAD,CREATE_EXTERNAL_ROUTINE,QUIESCE_CONNECT ON DATABASE TO agserviceuser;

Configure

You can establish a connection between IBM DB2 and Oracle Access Governance by entering connection details and configuring your database environment. To achieve this, use the Orchestrated Systems functionality available in the Oracle Access Governance Console.

Navigate to the Orchestrated Systems Page

Navigate to the Orchestrated Systems page of the Oracle Access Governance Console, by following these steps:

From the Oracle Access Governance navigation menu icon , select Service Administration → Orchestrated Systems .
Select the Add an orchestrated system button to start the workflow.

Select system

On the Select system step of the workflow, you can specify which type of database you would like to onboard.

Select Database User Management (DB2).

Enter details

On the Add Details step of the workflow, enter the details for the orchestrated system:

Enter a name for the system you want to connect to in the Name field.
Enter a description for the system in the Description field.
Decide if this orchestrated system is an authoritative source, and if Oracle Access Governance can manage permissions by setting the following check boxes.
- This is the authoritative source for my identities
  Select one of the following:
  - Source of identities and their attributes: System acts as a source identities and associated attributes. New identities are created through this option .
  - Source of identity attributes only: System ingests additional identity attributes details and apply to existing identities. This option doesn't ingest or creates new identity records.
- I want to manage permissions for this system
The default value in each case is Unselected.
Select Next.

Add owners

You can associate resource ownership by adding primary and additional owners. This drives self-service as these owners can then manage (read, update or delete) the resources that they own. By default, the resource creator is designated as the resource owner. You can assign one primary owner and up to 20 additional owners for the resources.

Note

When setting up the first Orchestrated System for your service instance, you can assign owners only after you enable the identities from the Manage Identities section.

To add owners:

Select an Oracle Access Governance active user as the primary owner in the Who is the primary owner? field.
Select one or more additional owners in the Who else owns it? list. You can add up to 20 additional owners for the resource.

You can view the Primary Owner in the list. All the owners can view and manage the resources that they own.

Account settings

On the Account settings step of the workflow, enter how you want Oracle Access Governance to manage accounts when the system is configured as a managed system:

When a permission is requested and the account doesn't already exist, select this option to create new accounts . This option is selected by default. When selected, Oracle Access Governance creates an account if one doesn't exist when a permission is requested. If you clear this option, permissions are provisioned only for existing accounts in the orchestrated system. If no account exists, the provisioning operation fails.
Select the recipients for notification emails when an account is created. The default recipient is User. If no recipients are selected, notifications aren't sent when accounts are created.
- User
- User manager
Configure Existing Accounts
Note

You can only set these configurations if allowed by the system administrator. When global account termination settings are enabled, application administrators can't manage account termination settings at the orchestrated-system level.
1. Select what to do with accounts when early termination begins: Choose the action to perform when an early termination begins. This happens when you need to revoke identity accesses before official termination date.
  - Delete: Deletes all accounts and permissions managed by Oracle Access Governance.
    Note
    
    If specific orchestrated system doesn't support the action, no action is taken.
  - Disable: Disables all accounts and disables permissions managed by Oracle Access Governance.
    - Delete the permissions for disabled accounts: To ensure zero residual access, select this to delete directly assigned permissions and policy-granted permissions during account disablement.
  - No action: No action is taken when an identity is flagged for early termination by Oracle Access Governance.
2. Select what to do with accounts on the termination date: Select the action to perform during official termination. This happens when you need to revoke identity accesses on the official termination date.
  - Delete: Deletes all accounts and permissions managed by Oracle Access Governance.
    Note
    
    If specific orchestrated system doesn't support Delete action, then no action is taken.
  - Disable: Disables all accounts and disables permissions managed by Oracle Access Governance.
    - Delete the permissions for disabled accounts: To ensure zero residual access, select this to delete directly assigned permissions and policy-granted permissions during account disablement.
    Note
    
    If specific orchestrated system doesn't support the Disable action, then account is deleted.
  - No action: No action is taken on accounts and permissions by Oracle Access Governance.
When an identity leaves your enterprise you must remove access to their accounts.
Note

You can only set these configurations if allowed by your system administrator. When global account termination settings are enabled, application administrators cannot manage account termination settings at the orchestrated-system level.
Select one of the following actions for the account:
- Delete: Delete all accounts and permissions managed by Oracle Access Governance.
- Disable: Disable all accounts and mark permissions as inactive.
  - Delete the permissions for disabled accounts: Delete directly assigned and policy-granted permissions during account disablement to ensure zero residual access.
- No action: Take no action when an identity leaves the organization.
Note

These actions are available only if supported by the orchestrated system type. For example, if Delete is not supported, you will only see the Disable and No action options.
When all permissions for an account are removed, for example when an identity moves between departments, you may need to decide what to do with the account. Select one of the following actions, if supported by the orchestrated system type:
- Delete
- Disable
- No action
Manage accounts that aren't created by Access Governance: Select to manage accounts that are created directly in the orchestrated system. With this, you can reconcile existing accounts and manage them from Oracle Access Governance.

Note

If you don't configure the system as a managed system then this step in the workflow will display but is not enabled. In this case you proceed directly to the Integration settings step of the workflow.

Note

If your orchestrated system requires dynamic schema discovery, as with the Generic REST and Database Application Tables integrations, then only the notification email destination can be set (User, Usermanager) when creating the orchestrated system. You cannot set the disable/delete rules for movers and leavers. To do this you need to create the orchestrated system, and then update the account settings as described in Configure Orchestrated System Account Settings.

Integration settings

On the Integration settings step of the workflow, enter the configuration details required to allow Oracle Access Governance to connect to the IBM DB2 database.

In the Easy Connect URL for Database field, enter the connect string for the database you want to integrate with Oracle Access Governance, in the format host/port/database service/sid.
In the User Name field, enter the IBM DB2 user you will use to connect to the database. This is the user you created in Create a DB2 System User Account for Database User Management (DB2) Orchestrated System Operations.
Enter the password of the IBM DB2 database user in the Password field. Confirm the password in the Confirm password field.
In Connection Properties enter any connection properties in the format prop1=val1#prop2=val2
In Custom Jar Details enter the jar name and the jar checksum in the format <jarName>::<jarChecksum.
For example:
```
db2jcc.jar::c8520f145b428b1133b771bb2c70a6f0f546c9f0655f9de5de2e7b64d5ede786911ad50b543846154fe373dead78d38fb6dded560e0de4c4e8ccbbf0a06b6c1e
```
For more information on custom jar support, refer Custom Jar Support.
Check the right hand pane to view What I've selected. If you are happy with the details entered, click Add.

Finish up

On the Finish Up step of the workflow, you are asked to download the agent you will use to interface between Oracle Access Governance and IBM DB2 database. Select the Download link to download the agent zip file to the environment in which the agent will run.

After downloading the agent, follow the instructions explained in the Agent Administration article.

Finally, you are given a choice whether to further configure your orchestrated system before running a data load, or accept the default configuration and initiate a data load. Select one from:

Customize before enabling the system for data loads
Activate and prepare the data load with the provided defaults

Post Configuration

For DB2 Database system to integrate with Oracle Access Governance, driver jar needs to be registered with the agent. For more information, refer Custom Jar Support.

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