Let’s assume you have a freshly installed on-premise installation of VMware Identity Manager or you have a newly created tenant in vIDM Workspace ONE Access SaaS infrastructure. There is not much this poor appliance can do at this point, right?
You will need to integrate it with some parts of your infrastructure to make it do useful things like Unified Catalog, SSO, Conditional Access, MFA, etc. In this series, I will show you all sorts of integrations and how you should configure them step by step.
The first integration you literally have to do, when you have SaaS vIDM Workspace ONE Access or you deployed your appliances in DMZ is to install a Connector and pair it with your vIDM Workspace ONE Access.
So what is a Connector (to be specific we are talking about the “VMware Identity Manager Connector”)?
VMware Identity Manager Connector provides organizations with the ability to integrate VMware Identity Manager Workspace ONE Access with their back-end enterprise systems.
Pretty obvious, huh? And those backend systems can be Active Directory, VMware Horizon, Citrix XenApp… But let’s start slowly. Let’s get the connector up and running.