Customizing the adapter profile

To customize the adapter profile, you must modify the LDAP Adapter JAR file, LdapProfile.jar.

About this task

You might customize the adapter profile to change the account form or the service form.

The LdapProfile.jar file is included in the LDAP Adapter compressed file that you downloaded from the IBM® website. The JAR file contains the following files:

CustomLabels.properties
erLDAPAccount.xml
erLDAPRMIService.xml
service.def
schema.dsml
LdapAL.xml
LDAPAdd.xml
LDAPDelete.xml
LDAPModify.xml
LDAPTest.xml
erLDAPGroupAccount.xml
LDAPGroupAdd.xml
LDAPGroupModify.xml
LDAPGroupDelete.xml

For more information about customizing the adapter profile, see the IBM Security Identity Manager, Version 6.0 Customization and Deployment Guide for the LDAP Adapter.

To edit and import the adapter profile, take these steps:

Procedure

To edit the LdapProfile.jar file, complete these steps:
1. Log on to the workstation where the IBM Directory Server or Sun ONE Directory Server is installed.
2. Copy the JAR file into a temporary directory.
3. Extract the contents of the JAR file into the temporary directory by running the following command. The following example applies to the LDAP Adapter profile. Type the name of the JAR file for your operating system.
```
 
jar -xvf LdapProfile.jar
```
  The jar command extracts the files into the directory.
4. Edit the file that you want change.
After you edit the file, you must import the file into the Identity Brokerage on-premises component. To import the file: See Managing on-premise targets by installing the Identity Adapter Profile - LDAP