Introduction

SailPoint is a leading provider of identity management solutions, empowering organizations to securely and efficiently manage user access to applications, data, and systems. While SailPoint offers a user-friendly web interface for managing identities, the CLI provides a streamlined and efficient way to perform various identity management tasks programmatically or from the command line.

Before we set sail, Let’s ensure our ship is ready for the journey. To embark on our CLI adventure, you’ll need:

1. Access Credentials: Ensure you have the credentials to authenticate with your Sailpoint instance.

2. CLI Installation: If you haven’t already, install the Sailpoint CLI tool on your local machine. The installation process may vary depending on your platform, But Sailpoint provides comprehensive documentation to guide through it.

To get an overview of available commands and flags using the Sail command, you can generally use the -h or --help flag.

Connectors

The connectors command is your go-to tool for creating and managing SaaS connectors within your tenant. To learn more about the options available with this command, use:

Sail connectors -h

Search

If you need to perform searches within the ISC, the Search command is what you need. Example search query:

Transform

We can create, update, list, download, update, delete transform using CLI.

To download the transforms from the tenant to our system, run the following command.

sail transform download -d transform_files

By default, this command will save the files in the current working directory. Use the -d flag to specify a path to an output directory.

VA

To collect all the files from a VA, use sail va collect. This saves all the files to the current directory. To get the log files in human-readable format use parse.

SailPoint Config

Using CLI, Import and export of objects between the tenants can be done.

Workflow

Whenever a specific event occurs, a set of steps called Workflows gets triggered.

Template

There are some predefined sets of queries available for Reports, SPConfig and Search. Some commands are:

• Sail report

• Sail Search template

• Sail spconfig template.

Conclusion

The Command Line Interface (CLI) in SailPoint is a powerful tool for administrators and developers to manage and automate IdentityNow configurations and operations. It provides the flexibility to perform tasks such as managing connectors, running reports, configuring settings, and more—all from the command line.