Online Manual: "User Management Resource Adminstrator"
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What is User Management Resource Administrator
Welcome to User Management Resource Administrator (UMRA). User Management
Resource Administrator (UMRA) is a comprehensive User Account Management
solution that can help you to control and manage Active Directory. While
extremely powerful and flexible, Active Directory can be a complex environment
to manage. UMRA is an enterprise solution focused on Active Directory
user account management and it provides a central point of control to
manage, control and report on Active Directory user accounts. Besides
Active Directory, UMRA also manages all user account resources like home-
and profile directories, Exchange mailboxes, Terminal Services settings,
group memberships and NTFS permissions.
UMRA supports a wide variety of functions and a number of different
interfaces. Features include the creation, deletion and configuration
of user accounts, mailboxes, (home) directories, groups, group memberships,
permission settings and many more.
With the different UMRA interfaces, you can create and manage user accounts
in bulk, one-by-one, in a delegated manner, by a command-line interface
and through a web interface.
UMRA Scripts
UMRA uses scripts to perform its tasks. A script is a collection of
statements or actions (examples: Create user, Setup mailbox) that each
perform a specifc task. The different actions available in UMRA to compose
a script, focus on the management of user accounts, resources, mailboxes
and so on. A script with multiple actions for instance create a user account,
sets up the home and profile directories and permissions, adds the new
user account to a number of groups and creates an Exchange mailbox for
the user account.
UMRA supports a graphical interface to setup a new script or edit existing
scripts. The interface is designed to make it very easy to setup a new
script or edit an existing script.
UMRA Projects
Different types of UMRA projects exist. Each project contains an UMRA
script and a specification how the script is executed. The two main project
types are:
Mass create-update-delete
projects: The project contains a table with input data. The input
data is for instance read from a csv file. For each line of the input
file, the script is executed. A mass project is typically used to create,
update or delete user accounts and resources. See Principle
of operation for more information. Form project:
The project contains the definition of a form. The form typically contains
a number of fields like tables, text, input fields. The form is presented
in a separate interface (UMRA forms) or a web-interface (browser). When
the form fields are specified by the end-user and the form is submitted,
the script of the form project is executed. See Form
project - Principle of operation for more information.
UMRA Software
UMRA consists of a number of software applications:
UMRA Console:
The main application that is primarily used to manage all UMRA projects
and manage the UMRA service. To use UMRA, you always start with the UMRA
Console application. UMRA Service: The UMRA service is used to execute delegated
tasks. The UMRA Service is accessed through the UMRA Console, UMRA Forms
and UMRA Automation software. You only need to install the UMRA Service
application if you want to execute forms projects. See UMRA
Delegation - General or more information. UMRA Forms: The Windows interface to show and submit
delegated forms. The UMRA Forms application is most often used by helpdesk
employees. The UMRA Forms application interfaces with the UMRA Service
application directly. See UMRA
forms - Introduction for more information. UMRA
Automation: UMRA can
be integrated with other employee management systems to automate Active
Directory user account management tasks. For instance: When an employee
leaves an organization and is excluded from an employee information system,
Active Directory needs to be updated, by disabling or removal of the associated
user account and network resources. With UMRA, the UMRA service can execute
these tasks automatically when the employee information system is updated.
See UMRA Automation - Introduction
for more information.
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