Requesting access for yourself with the Identity Manager Service Center

This scenario describes how to use the Identity Manager Service Center Request Access wizard to provide you access, such as role membership, accounts, services, and groups. The wizard provides a unified catalog of access that you can use.

Before you begin

Depending on your system customization, you might not have access to this task. Contact your system administrator to obtain access to this task.

The system configuration, such as access catalog information and provisioning policies, affects the users and accesses that can be selected in this flow.

Follow your organization process for any operations or permissions to make sure that your request is valid.

About this task

Use the Request Access wizard to request one or more accesses for yourself from the unified catalog of accesses. The wizard supports batch requests by building up a list of items to request before you go to the next step. For example, you move into a new role, and you require access to multiple systems or applications.

Procedure

  1. Log on to the Identity Manager Service Center.
  2. From the Identity Manager Service Center Home page, click Request Access to display the Select accesses page.
    If your view is for self and others, the Select user page is displayed. Click Select me from the Quick Select menu.
  3. On the Select accesses page, select one or more accesses.
    Note: A message is displayed if you exceed the maximum limit that is set for selecting the access. If no maximum limit is set, the default access selection limit is 25.
    The request summary area displays an updated summary about your access selections. Any errors, warnings, or information messages about the access selections are also displayed there. Click the area to open and view the Request summary details.
    Request access for
    Displays your name.
    Request access to
    Displays the accesses that you selected.
    If you want to start with your request again, then click Cancel my request.
  4. Click Next to open the Provide required information page.
  5. Provide a brief description or justification about your business requirement for the access items that you are selecting.
  6. Depending on the configuration, click Provide account information, if it is displayed, to open the Account information page. Specify the additional information that is necessary for your request, such as personal information, or necessary resource-specific information.
    Note: For non-compliant values or validation errors in any Identity Manager Service Center console fields, click outside the field or tab to view or display the updated hover or hint text.

    After the account information is entered, click Continue request to return to the Provide required information page.

  7. If you have existing accounts on the resource, specify the account or multiple accounts to which the access is applied.
  8. Depending on the configuration, click Provide role assignment attribute values if it is displayed. The Role assignment attributes page is displayed.
    Click Edit to edit the assignment attributes.
    • When you click Edit, an editable dialog box is displayed.
    • After you finish editing the values, click Save. The Edit Assignment Attributes page is displayed.

      Click Save and Continue.

  9. Click Submit.
    A message is displayed to indicate a successful submission or any submission errors.

What to do next

Depending on your view setting, you can view the confirmation and status of your submitted request in the View requests page. To do so, go to Home > View Requests.

Request more accesses for the selected user, or specify new accesses for another user.