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Identity Portal - automated export - pretty json

  • 1.  Identity Portal - automated export - pretty json

    Posted Apr 24, 2025 02:16 PM

    We have an enhancement open to assist with dev-ops and delta compare operation for Identity Portal business logic (forms,elements, plugins, localization, etc.).  We would like to see a tool in IGA release 15.
    https://community.broadcom.com/idea/enhancement-request-identity-portal-json-export-automated-pretty-json

    Upvote if you think this would be useful to you.


    Background:
       We can automate the backup of the Identity Manager component with the import/export tool provided in IAM suite tools, and have this script automated with crontab.

    Challenge:    We have attempted to identify a process with curl or other to do similar with Identity Portal.   We have not been 100% successful.    

    Request:   Provide client tool or API to allow automation of export of the Identity Portal business logic to a pretty json format.   This will allow administrations teams to backup data on a daily basis, and allow delta compare operations using jq or similar tools.     We are looking for dev-ops operations processes where we can export the Identity Portal objects into a git repository, to allow automation and promotion of the objects from dev to test env, then to near-prod environments with approval mechanisms. 


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    Our current delta compare method is manual with MS Powershell to assist (with Notepad++ and WinMerge)




    Export the full json file (txt) (aka json one-liner file)

    Use powershell to convert to pretty-json (human readable and able to re-import) - and auto-open in Notepad++





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    Alan Baugher
    ANA
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