Environment
NetIQ Identity Manager
Novell Identity Manager 4.0
Novell Identity Manager 3.6.1
Novell Identity Manager Driver - Lotus Notes
Situation
What does the getUNIDVectorByNotesDN do in the Notes driver in Identity Manager?
Resolution
The getUNIDVectorByNotesDN(...) method tries to find the UniversalID for the group members in the provided trace. The UniversalID property is used as an association attribute in the driver.
During group modifications, the driver tries to populate the association for the members, which requires a search in the database.
For every member, a maximum of three attempts are made to find a suitable match, first based on FullName, if unsuccessful then based on ListName and lastly based on ServerName.
If the match for a member is found in the first attempt, then the other two match attempts will not be done for this member. So, for every group member that is not found in the database, three failed match attempts are performed.