6.0 Google Apps Collectors

This chapter focuses on specific configuration-related information regarding the following collection and fulfillment templates:

Google Apps manages users, groups, and organizational units, including assigned roles and privileges. Collecting identities from Google Apps is similar to other data sources. However, to collect permissions, OpenText Identity Governance pulls information from Google Groups, which resembles discussion-based groups similar to those available in Usenet.

To gather information about actual user groups, OpenText Identity Governance collects from the Organizations (organizational units) in Google Apps. These organizational units can contain nested units. The top-level organization is always called ‘root.’ During collection, OpenText Identity Governance translates the organizational units into OpenText Identity Governance-style groups. In OpenText Identity Governance, the root group lists all the users in that organizational unit. If you select one of the nested groups under the root group, OpenText Identity Governance lists only the individuals assigned to that group.