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The necessity to exchange provisioning data between Active Directory and other provisioning services stipulated the use of SPML in Softerra Adaxes. As an open standard, SPML allows services and applications to exchange provisioning information and interoperate with each other. Using SPML, Softerra Adaxes ensures its quick and easy integration in SPML-enabled provisioning systems. Softerra Adaxes supports only the version 2.0 of the SPML protocol. For more information, see the section called “SPML Support”.
Softerra Adaxes can act both as SPML client (Requesting Authority in terms of SPML standard) and SPML provider (Provisioning Service Point). As SPML provider, Adaxes processes SPML requests received from other SPML-enabled provisioning services and executes them in Active Directory. As SPML client, Softerra Adaxes sends SPML requests for Active Directory operations performed via the Adaxes service to the registered SPML providers. For this purpose, Adaxes uses SPML Connectors.
SPML Connectors store information on the connection to an SPML service and parameters of SPML requests generation. When an operation is performed in Active Directory, an SPML Connector sends an SPML request to its SPML provider. For example, when a user account is created in Active Directory, an SPML Connector sends an Add Request that creates a corresponding account in another SPML application.
For more information, see SPML Connectors.
Adaxes SPML Provider allows SPML-compliant systems to exchange provisioning data with Active Directory. Adaxes SPML Provider is a web service running by Internet Information Service (IIS). It transforms SPML requests sent by other provisioning services into Active Directory operations or data retrieval queries. For example, when a user account is created in an SPML application, the Add Request is sent to the Adaxes SPML Provider. The Adaxes SPML Provider can be configured to process such requests and transform them into the 'user create' operations in Active Directory.
Using Adaxes SPML Provider, you can provision Active Directory directly or via the Adaxes service. Provisioning Active Directory via the Adaxes service allows you to benefit from the functionality of Softerra Adaxes, such as Business Rules, Security Roles, Property Patterns, etc.
For more information, see Adaxes SPML Provider.