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Provisioning Roles

To grant users access to accounts in additional applications, such as an email system, you assign provisioning roles. Provisioning roles contain account templates, which define the attributes that exist in one type of account. For example, an account template for an Exchange account defines attributes such as the size of the mailbox. Account templates also define how CA Identity Manager user attributes are mapped to accounts.

The following illustration shows four accounts which are combined into one provisioning role and assigned to three users. Each user receives four accounts, when you assign the provisioning role to that user