There could be several reasons as to why you are deleting the connector space. As example, you have recently deleted a connector space that is involved in your FIM Solution. As we all know, the process of exporting to the FIM Portal can be very slow during the process of Additions and Deletions. In light of this, the goal of this article is to provide you a way to get back up and running as quickly as possible. For the FIM Service Management Agent, the recommended process is to join the objects in the FIM Portal with those in the Metaverse. In this article, we will cover those steps to help you accomplish this goal.
If you are reviewing this article in conjunction with the Deleting the Connector Space document, then you may have already backed up the databases already. If you have not, then please think of disaster recovery, we want to be able to get back to the previous setup without too much trouble should the need arise. To do this, we recommend that the FIM Synchronization Service Database (MicrosoftIdentityIntegration Server database for IIFP/MIIS/ILM) is properly backed up prior to deleting the connector space. If you are using the FIM Service and Portal, then we recommend backing up the FIM Service database as well.
Find more information on backing up the backend database here.
In doing this, we will want all the other non-FIM Service Management Agents to be set to “Make them a disconnector” on the Configure Deprovisioning tab.
However, before you make this change, back up the management agents, or take a snap-shot< of the existing configuration for deprovisioning. It is very important to know how you have your deprovisioning configured, as you want to be able to set it backup once you have completed these steps.
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In doing this, we want the FIM Service Management Agent to be set to “Make them a disconnector” and "Do not recall attributes..."on the Configure Deprovisioning tab. However, before you make this change, back up the management agents, or take a snap-shot of the existing configuration for deprovisioning. It is very important to know how you have your deprovisioning configured, as you want to be able to set it backup once you have completed these steps.
Since we set the "do not recall" bit on the FIM MAdeleting the FIM connector space does not delete the csObjectID in the metaverse. Hence we can rejoin the objects in the MV when importing/syncing the FIM MA later on.
At this point, we are ready to delete the connector space.
If you are actually deleting the management agent, then you would choose the second radio button. However, it is still very important to go through all the pieces of this document to ensure that we can get back to a previous state should the need arise.
Once the deletion process has occurred, we want to be able to import and synchronize the objects back into the metaverse without running through provisioning. This will allow for objects to join back up to existing objects. If you are using Synchronization Rule Provisioning, you need to ensure that one is disabled as well.
You are now ready to bring the objects from the FIM Portal back into the FIM Service Management Agent Connector Space and then join them up to the objects in the metaverse.