Before you use IBM InfoSphere Identity Insight,
you must first configure the entity database to work with your source
data.
Configuring characteristic types
You can configure characteristic types for data that cannot be
classified as a name, number, address, or email address type. When new data
is added to a data source and you want to classify that data as a characteristic
type not already configured in the system, you need to create a new characteristic
type for the new data.
Configuring number types
You can configure numbers types for data that can be classified
as numbers. When new data is added to a data source and you want to classify
that data as a number not already configured in the system, you need to create
a new number type for the new data.
Configuring name data
Name data is what is contained in the <NAME> segment
of any incoming UMF document. During the entity resolution process,
name data is analyzed, compared against the name data of existing
entities in the entity database, and given a score based on how closely
the name data matched.
Configuring DQM rules
You can configure DQM rules to repair or clean up data that does
not meet minimum data quality standards. DQM rules are applied to a specific
UMF tag in a specific UMF segment.
Configuring lookup codes
Lookup codes are default values used by various features
of the application.
Configuring generic data values
You can configure data values to be generic if they exceed a configured
number of occurrences in the entity database. You can use the Visualizer to
manually define a particular value or set of values as generic, or to never
go generic.
Configuring roles
You can configure roles to classify entities in the entity database.
Roles can be assigned to data sources or entities. Conflicting roles generate
alerts.
Configuring role alert rules
You can configure role alert rules to define a combination of roles
that, when detected, generate alerts.
Configuring entity types
You can configure entity types to identify the exact
nature of the entity.
Configuring degrees of separation
You can configure IBM InfoSphere Identity Insight to detect
one, two, or multiple degrees of separation between conflicting entities.
The standard separation configuration is set to one degree, but by
configuring the Degrees of Separation feature, you can configure the
system to detect two or more degrees of separation.
Configuring UMF documents
To successfully use Unified Messaging Format (UMF) documents, they
must be known and configured.
Configuring the data source
You must configure a data source when there is a new data source
you want to load into the entity database.
Configuring event types
You configure event types to define and categorize events that
are processed by Event Manager. Before you can configure event types, you
must first install v.4.2 Fix Pack 1, and then run the post-installation SQL
scripts. However, before the system processes incoming data containing event
types, you must enable event processing in the Event Manager
system parameters, configure the business rules in the Eclipse-based complex
event processor tool, and format the incoming event data using the UMF EVENT
data segment definitions.