Identity Access Management (IAM) Workflow management

Introduction of Workflow

A workflow is a set of actions that are completed every time a specific event occurs. Automatically initiating and performing a sequence of actions within your system that you can configure in response to a trigger.

Steps of Workflow

• TRIGGERS

• ACTIONS

• OPERATORS

TRIGGERS

The trigger dictates when the workflow starts and supplies the initial input that guides the subsequent steps in the workflow. Each workflow is required to have exactly one trigger.

ACTIONS

A workflow must contain at least one action, which is any task it executes outside of the workflow or any modification it makes to its JSON data.

OPERATORS

An operator that compares two values and makes a decision based on that comparison is called a choice or comparison step. Examples of such operators include Compare Strings and Compare Numbers.

Ways Of Build A Workflow:

 There are three ways to build a workflow, those are

·         Start with a template

·         Start with a JSON File

·         Start in the workflow builder.

Start with JSON File:

We create a workflow using already created workflows. We need to download the script of already created workflow which we want to reuse and upload the script here.

Start With Template:

Sailpoint provide some pre-defined templates to create workflow. We can use those templates to create a new workflow without creating from the scratch.

Start With Workflow Builders

Complex workflows can be created with minimal amount of code using visual workflow builder.

End Steps

Each workflow requires at least one end step, which can be used to stop the workflow and classify its execution as either a success or a failure. Each branch of your workflow must conclude with an end step.

Conclusion

We use the workflow to automate some processes whenever an event occurs without using the code and no need to initialize those steps every time. It provides enormous flexibility.