Data transfer to the adapter

The Lotus Notes Adapter is an individual IBM® Security Identity Manager software program that must reside on a workstation where the Notes client is installed.

That workstation can be the Lotus Domino server. Data is transferred between the Lotus Notes Adapter and the IBM Security Identity server using the Directory Access Markup Language (DAML) protocol. DAML uses Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to send XML-formatted messages between the adapter and the server.

IBM Security Identity Manager communicates with the Lotus Notes Adapter in order to administer user accounts. When the IBM Security Identity server issues a request to the Lotus Notes Adapter, the server opens a TCP/IP connection. This connection stays open until the adapter completes the request and responds back to the server with an acknowledgement message. Once the IBM Security Identity server receives the anticipated response, it drops the connection to the adapter.