Adding Analytics

IAP embeds a flexible framework in order to facilitate the inclusion of custom analytics.

Custom analytics associated to a management position

You can configure custom analytics in the user section of Access360. Those analytics will appear among the others in the Analytics tab. Those customs analytics MUST be associated with the current user management characteristics, in a way that they will only appear if the current user corresponds to those management characteristics (line manager, application manager, ...).

In order to add custom analytics, you have to create a Pages with the following constraints:

• A parameter named uid which will receive the uid of the current user
• A Tag determining when to display this custom analytics for the end user

Here is a description of the Tags:

Here is an example to add a custom analytics for end users being application manager:

myanalytics_app = Page {
  title: 'my custom analytics for app manager'
  description:'description of my custom analytics for app manager'
  tags: "myapp_access360" priority 1
  icon: "16/details/analytics_16.png" large-icon: "48/details/analytics_48.png"

  uid = Parameter { type: String hidden: True }

  // TODO: Your content here
}

Keep in mind that the feature: property will help you to show or hide your custom analytics depending on the user roles if needed

Custom analytics for end users

You can configure custom analytics for endusers in the user section of Access360. Those analytics will appear among the others in the Analytics tab.

In order to add custom analytics or end user , you have to create a Pages with the following constraints:

• A parameter named uid which will receive the uid of the current user
• A Tag named my_access360

Here is an example to add a custom analytics for end users:

myanalytics_app = Page {
  title: 'my custom analytics for all users'
  description:'description of my custom analytics for all users'
  tags: "my_access360" priority 1
  icon: "16/details/analytics_16.png" large-icon: "48/details/analytics_48.png"

    uid = Parameter { type: String hidden: True }

  // TODO: Your content here
}

Keep in mind that the feature: property will help you to show/hide your custom analytics depending on the user roles if needed

Custom analytics for a given entity

You can add your own custom analytics in the 'Analytics' section of the detail panes.

This method is the same as the one used in Ader version and 2017 version. You can consult the documentation for more information about this: Links to Reports and Pages from Detail Pages

Here is a quick description: You need to create a Page with the following constraints:

• A parameter named uid which will receive the entity uid
• A Tag named byuid
• An optional Tag to specify the king of report, can be browsing, analytics, review, mining
• An optional Tag to specify if this is a printable version printable
• A Tag determining where to display this custom analytics

Here is a description of the Tags to specify where to display this custom analytics:

Here is an example to add a custom analytics in the application details Analytics pane for all applications:

myanalyticspane_app = Page {
  title: 'my custom app analytics'
  description:'description of my custom app analytics'
  tags: "byuid", "analytics", "organisation"
  icon: "16/details/analytics_16.png" large-icon: "48/details/analytics_48.png"

    uid = Parameter { type: String hidden: True }

  // TODO: Your content here
}

Custom analytics for a given repository type

You can add your own custom analytics in the 'Analytics' section of the detail panes for certain repository types. This is very useful if for instance you want to deploy analytics for a given system such as Active Directory, Mainframes, ...

The way to configure those custom analytics is very similar to the upper section:

You need to create a Page with the following constraints:

• A parameter named uid which will receive the entity uid
• A Tag named byuid
• An optional Tag to specify the king of report, can be browsing, analytics, review, mining
• An optional Tag to specify if this is a printable version printable
• A Tag determining where to display this custom analytics
• A Tag which contains the type fulfilled in the Identity Ledger for the repository

Here is a description of the Tags to specify where to display this custom analytics:

Here is an example to add a custom report for Repository detail pane only for Active Directory repositories In order to do so, we assume that you have configured your collect line by setting the attribute repositorytype=AD in the corresponding repositories.

myadanalyticspane = Page {
  title: 'my custom analytics for Active Directory'
  description:'description of my custom analytics for Active Directory'
  tags: "byuid", "browsing", "repositoryext", "AD"
  icon: "16/details/browsing_16.png" large-icon: "48/details/browsing_48.png"

    uid = Parameter { type: String hidden: True }

  // TODO: Your content here
}

Custom analytics for a given entity family

You can add your own custom analytics in the 'Analytics' section of the detail panes for certain entity families. This is very useful if for instance you want to deploy analytics for a given system such as Active Directory, SAP, ...

The way to configure those custom analytics is very similar to the upper section:

You need to create a Page with the following constraints:

• A parameter named uid which will receive the entity uid
• A Tag named byuid
• An optional Tag to specify the king of report, can be browsing, analytics, review, mining
• An optional Tag to specify if this is a printable version printable
• A Tag determining where to display this custom analytics
• A Tag which contains the familytype fulfilled in the Identity Ledger in the application or the repository

Here is a description of the Tags to specify where to display this custom analytics:

Here is an example to add a custom report for Repository detail pane only for Active Directory repositories In order to do so, we assume that you have configured your collect line by setting the attribute repositoryfamily=AD in the corresponding repositories.

myadanalyticspane = Page {
  title: 'my custom analytics for Active Directory'
  description:'description of my custom analytics for Active Directory'
  tags: "byuid", "browsing", "repositoryext", "AD"
  icon: "16/details/browsing_16.png" large-icon: "48/details/browsing_48.png"

    uid = Parameter { type: String hidden: True }

  // TODO: Your content here
}

For repositories, as a best practice you should consider repositorytype as a main custom type and repositoryfamily as a sub custom type. For instance if you load database accounts and groups in a Repository, you should fulfill your data as is:

• repositorytype = database
• repositoryfamily = SQL Server

Custom identity analytics based on management position

You can add custom identity analytics based on the current identity management position (such as application manager, organisation manager, ...). This is very useful as it will avoid to provide empty analytics (such as direct team reports if the current identity is not a line manager). This approach is very similar to the one used in the "User section of Access360".

You need to create a Page with the following constraints:

• A parameter named uid which will receive the entity uid
• A Tag named byuid
• An optional Tag to specify the king of report, can be browsing, analytics, review, mining
• An optional Tag to specify if this is a printable version printable
• A Tag determining where to display this custom analytics
• A Tag determining the management information to enforce

Here is a description of the Tags to specify where to display this custom analytics:

Here is an example to add a custom analytics in the identity details Analytics pane for application managers:

appaccessrights360detail = Page {
  title: $appaccessrights360NLS.title
  description:$appaccessrights360NLS.description
  tags: "identityext" priority 200, "byuid" , "browsing", "applicationmanager"
  icon: "16/details/browsing_16.png" large-icon: "48/details/browsing_48.png"

    uid = Parameter { type: String hidden: True }
}

Best practice to publish custom analytics

When you create custom analytics for end users, you SHOULD make them available as well in the analytics pane of the corresponding identity. At the end of the day, it will facilitate level 1 support such as an individual calling the support line because he is confused about an analytics content. As an administrator or and auditor, you will be able to browse through the corresponding identity detail pane and to access the exact same analytics from the Analytics pane.

In order to do so, you should create your pages with the following pattern:

myreport_admin = Page {
  title: "My analytics"
  icon: "16/details/browsing_16.png" large-icon: "48/details/browsing_48.png"
  description:"My analytics description"
  tags: "identityext" priority 200, "byuid" , "browsing", "applicationmanager"
  conditional-redirect: ConditionalRedirect {
    condition:BooleanPredicate(True)
    target:Page myreport with-current-parameters
  }

    uid = Parameter { type: String hidden: True }
}

myreport_enduser = Page {
  title: "My analytics"
  icon: "16/details/browsing_16.png" large-icon: "48/details/browsing_48.png"
  description:"My analytics description"
  tags: "myapp_access360" priority 1

  conditional-redirect: ConditionalRedirect {
    condition:BooleanPredicate(True)
    target:Page myreport with-current-parameters
  }

    uid = Parameter { type: String hidden: True }
}

myreport = Page {
  title: "My analytics"
  dynamic-title: "My analytics dynamic title"
  icon: "16/details/browsing_16.png" large-icon: "48/details/browsing_48.png"
  description:"My analytics description"
  
  /* Parameters here */
    uid = Parameter { type: String hidden: True }

  // your content here
}

If needed you will be able to add feature: on the _admin and _enduser pages to restrict the access depending on the user roles.

Presentation

Starting with IAP 1.1 you can configure Analytics accessible through the search pages in order to perform analysis on search results.

For instance:

• You search for 'VIP identities' and you want to access to a report displaying their access rights and what changed since a given data
• You search for orphan AD accounts and you want to list their groups

Until IAP 1.1 this was possible through a custom tag byuids, please consult Managing analytics pages and reports.

However, this feature had some limitations:

• It was only available when the number of search results was under 1000 elements
• It was sending the uid values instead of the search query, making it useless to bookmark the page as the search was not played against other timeslots.

For those reasons, byuids is now DEPRECATED and is no longer used in IAP. If you want to provide analytics on search results, you MUST use the new method described here.

From an end user perspective, those analytics are available through the contextual menu located at the lower right part of the search screen.

When you click on this menu entry, all the available analytics are presented:

When you click on a given analytics, it is displayed as usual but with a subtle difference: The search query itself is passed to the Analytics, as a result, this analytics can be safely bookmarked in the favorites

Configuration

In order to be able to access to the search analytics reports, you must have the corresponding security feature enabled.

Here is the list of the features:

• accountsearch_analytics
• applicationsearch_analytics
• identitysearch_analytics
• organisationsearch_analytics
• permissionsearch_analytics
• repositorysearch_analytics
• groupsearch_analytics
• sharesearch_analytics
• sharedfoldersearch_analytics

All those features are declared in /webportal/features/bw_portaluar_base/searchpages.features

By default, those features are associated with the searchanalytics featureset.

The searchanalytics featureset is associated by default to the following roles:

• functional administrator
• technical administrator
• auditor

When the search page is displayed, depending on the number of search analytics pages found, the item can be grayed. (grayed if no analytics are found or if none of them are accessible to the current user )

In the following example, although the Feature is enabled for the current user, no search analytics are available, as a result, the menu entry is grayed in the list

A last thing regarding the overall performances of this function:

As you can imagine, you can end up with situations where there is a tremendous amount of data to present (if you ask for instance to access to an analytics presenting ALL groups for 1,000,000 accounts) In order to prevent those situations, this feature has been limited by default:

• A warning message is presented if the Analytics will be run on more than 1,000 entries
• An error message is presented to prevent running Analytics on more than 10,000 entries

As a best practice, you should refine your search results then.

You can override those default values at your own risks through the technical configuration of your project thanks to the following variables:

Build your own search analytics

You can easily build your own search analytics, as with the rest of the analytics, they will be automatically discovered and added to the list thanks to their tags.

If you are looking for some implementation examples, the default search analytics are located in /webportal/pages/bw_access360/searchanalytics/

Here is a typical search analytics skeleton

myOwnIdentitySearchAnalytics= Page {
 title: "My own identity analytics"
 description: "Description of my analytics"
 tags: "identity", "searchresults"
 icon: "16/details/browsing_16.png" large-icon: "48/details/browsing_48.png"

 /* Parameters here */
 search = SearchDefinition {
  entity: Identity
  simple-mode-rule: br_identity_simple_search
 }
  
 /* Variables here */

 /* Datasets and records here */
 mydata = Dataset {
  search: Search {
   view:myOwnIdentitySearchAnalyticsView
   definition:search
  }
 } 
 ...
}

As you can see, in order for a search analytics page to appear in the identity list it must contain two flags: identity and searchresults.

The first one specify the search page:

The page must contain a search parameter in the form of a SearchDefinition.

Here are the prototypes for the different kind of search

Identity SearchDefinition

 search = SearchDefinition {
  entity: Identity
  simple-mode-rule: br_identity_simple_search
 }

Organisation SearchDefinition

 search = SearchDefinition {
  entity: Organisation
  simple-mode-rule: br_organisation_simple_search
 }

Account SearchDefinition

 search = SearchDefinition {
  entity: Account
  simple-mode-rule: br_account_simple_search
 }

Group SearchDefinition

 search = SearchDefinition {
  entity: Group
  simple-mode-rule: br_group_simple_search
 }

Repository SearchDefinition

 search = SearchDefinition {
  entity: Repository
  simple-mode-rule: br_repository_simple_search
 }

Application SearchDefinition

 search = SearchDefinition {
  entity: Application
  simple-mode-rule: br_application_simple_search
 }

Permission SearchDefinition

 search = SearchDefinition {
  entity: Permission
  simple-mode-rule: br_permission_simple_search
 }

Share SearchDefinition

 search = SearchDefinition {
  entity: Application
  simple-mode-rule: br_application_simple_search
 }

SharedFolder SearchDefinition

 search = SearchDefinition {
  entity: Permission
  simple-mode-rule: br_sharedfolder_simple_search
 }

Your view must have the search definition anchor option activated, as seen in the following screenshot.

Adding custom content in detail pages & dialog box

You can be in a situation where you have loaded custom information on entities (such as custom identity information or custom account information). Whatever the form (custom attributes or metadata), you will want to display this information in the user interfaces as well.

In order to do so, you can enable "custom detail panes" in both the detail pages and the dialog box. Once enabled, those detail panes will be displayed in the "standard" user interface:

In the detail pages:

In the dialog box:

In order to do so, you have to create your own content in predefined fragments. Those fragments are located in /webportal/pages/bw_fragments/custom/ with one fragment per concept.

If you want to display custom content for a concept, you MUST modify the corresponding file to add your own content.

Here is the content of accountExtendedDetails.page file

/**
 * Display the selected account details extended attributes
 * 
 * Parameters:
 * inuid the account uid
 * inenabled optional, boolean value, true to enable fragment (true by default)
 * outdisplay boolean value, true to display the fragment (false by default)
 */
fragmentAccountExtendedDetails = PageFragment {
  /* Parameters here */
    
  /* Variables here */
  inuid = Variable
  inenabled = Variable { multivalued:False type:Boolean initial:True }
  outdisplay = Variable { multivalued:False type:Boolean initial:False }

  // TODO: put your custom content here
}

As you can see, you will be provided the uid of the entity to display, you MUST set outdisplay to True if you want your panel to be displayed in the UIs. As this is a variable you can perform a dynamic check to select whether or not you want to display additional information, based for instance on the family type.

Here is an example where additional account information will be displayed only for 'Active Directory' and 'Top Secret' repository types, with dedicated content for each.

fragmentAccountExtendedDetails = PageFragment {
  enter-event:StringCase(account.repository_repositoryfamily) { 
          when "AD" then [ Set True to outdisplay ] 
          when "TSS" then [ Set True to outdisplay ] 
          otherwise [ Set False to outdisplay ] 
        }
  /* Parameters here */
    
  /* Variables here */
  inuid = Variable
  inenabled = Variable { multivalued:False type:Boolean initial:True }
  outdisplay = Variable { multivalued:False type:Boolean initial:False }

  account = Record {
    view:bwf_accountDetail with inuid to uid
  }

  ConditionalGroup {
    StringCondition(account.repository_repositoryfamily) {
      when "AD" then [
        // TODO: put your custom AD content here
      ]    
      when "TSS" then [
        // TODO: put your custom TSS content here
      ]    
    }
  }
}

Overriding detail pages

You can override the default details pages to provide custom content. For instance, if you have loaded a very specific application, you can consider that the default application detail page is not relevant/sufficient, you can in this case create your own detail page for this application and configure IAP in a way that it will display your detail page instead of the default one.

In order to override a default page, you MUST use the Activity functionality of Pages. Please refer to RadiantOne Identity Analytics product documentation if you are not familiar with this functionality.

Starting with IAP, you can use the discriminator of the Activity to specify when to override the detail page.

Here is a list of the possibilities:

Here are some examples:

Dedicated account details and group details for Active Directory repositories:

Activity {
  concept: Account
  kind: Detail
  discriminator: 'AD'
  to: Page myCustomAccountDetailPage
}

Activity {
  concept: Group
  kind: Detail
  discriminator: 'AD'
  to: Page myCustomGroupDetailPage
}

Dedicated application details for windows servers loaded as applications (with 'server' loaded as applicationtype):

Activity {
  concept: Application
  kind: Detail
  discriminator: 'server'
  to: Page myCustomServerDetailPage
}

Dedicated application details for SAP applications (with 'SAP' loaded as applicationfamily):

Activity {
  concept: Application
  kind: Detail
  discriminator: 'SAP'
  to: Page myCustomSAPDetailPage
}

Dedicated permission details for SAP transactions loaded as permission (with applicationfamily='SAP' and permissiontype='transaction'):

Activity {
  concept: Permission
  kind: Detail
  discriminator: 'SAP.transaction'
  to: Page myCustomPermissionDetailPage
}

As a best practice you are NOT ALLOWED to modify the default details pages. If you want to modify them, you should copy/paste them instead and to override them through the Activity functionality.

Overriding detail dialog box

As with detail pages, you can override the default detail dialog boxes to provide custom content. For instance, if you have loaded a very specific application, you can consider that the default application detail dialog box is not relevant/sufficient, you can in this case create your own detail dialog box for this application and configure IAP in a way that it will display your detail dialog box instead of the default one.

In order to override a default dialog box, you MUST configure the dialog box content as a PageFragment. Please refer to RadiantOne Identity Analytics product documentation if you are not familiar with this functionality.

In order to override a default dialog box, you have to create a PageFragment whom name follows a naming convention.

For instance, if you want to override the default dialog box for an Application of type Filesystem you have to create a fragment with the following name: bwf_applicationDetailsFragmentFilesystem

The best practive whenever you want to create your own dialog box is to start with the default one by copy/pasting its content in your fragment.

If you are looking for some examples to start with, have a look at the following concepts which have been overriden:

As a best practice you are NOT ALLOWED to modify the default dialog boxes. If you want to modify them, you should copy/paste them instead in your own fragment.

Building your own page

IAP provides a framework which tremendously improves the way you can build your own reports and analytics. One of the main aspects of this framework is the use of 'fragments' (see Pages Fragments for more details about this functionality).

More than 200 documented fragments are provided off-the-shelf.

For instance, here is a standard fragment to present identity details (fragmentIdentityFullDetails)

Those fragments are located in /webportal/pages/bw_fragments/

Fragments are located in subdirectories, based on their concept:

All fragments are documented, you can access to the corresponding fragment documentation through a mouse roll over the fragment. Hit F2 to open the help as a dialog box.

Standard dialog box are also provided to present entity details, those dialog box are located in /webportal/pages/bw_fragments/[entity]/details/[entity]Details.page, for instance: /webportal/pages/bw_fragments/account/details/accountDetails.page

Example of a dialog box to present a given account detail:

Those dialog box are documented, you can access to the corresponding fragment documentation through a mouse roll over the dialog box. Hit F2 to open the help as a dialog box.

As a best practice you SHOULD use those fragments and dialogbox whenever possible when you create custom reports and anaytics.

As a best practice you ARE NOT ALLOWED to modify/patch the standard fragments/dialogbox. If needed, you have to copy/paste them and create your own, most probably you will have to override the default pages (see next section). You can also add custom content in detail pages & dialog box (see next section).

IAP provide a series of librairies to facilitate Pages design. You SHOULD use those librairies. Those libraries include:

• colors
• icons
• kpis framgnets
• mappings
• mixins
• nls
• styles
• templates

As a best practice, you SHOULD include librairies in your custom pages by copy/pasting the following bloc on the upper section of your page:

import "/webportal/pages/bw_fragments/lib/mixins.page"
import "/webportal/pages/bw_fragments/lib/templates.page"
import "/webportal/pages/bw_fragments/lib/mappings.page"
import "/webportal/pages/bw_fragments/lib/styles.page"
import "/webportal/pages/bw_fragments/lib/icons.page"
import "/webportal/pages/bw_fragments/lib/nls.page"
import "/webportal/pages/bw_fragments/lib/colors.page"
import "/webportal/pages/bw_fragments/lib/kpis.page"

Former .gif and .png icons are deprecated. A new set of svg icon is available in IAP. You SHOULD use those icons instead of the former gif and png icons.

Those icons are located in reports/icons/bw_fragments/*

For more information on how to use svg icons in Pages, you can consult the product documentation SVG images

What is very interesting with those svg icons is that you can dynamically configure their size and their color.

A series of ImageMap is available for your convenience in the following library file /webportal/pages/bw_fragments/lib/icons.page In this library the icons have been declared in various size and colors with the following naming convention [library]_[size]_[color]. Instead of directly include the svg icons, you SHOULD point to an ImageMap instead.

Here is a simple example:

Header {
  value:'My title with a 48px account logo'
  icon:%concept_48.account
}

IAP colors are located in /webportal/pages/bw_fragments/lib/colors.page, you SHOULD use them instead of hardcoding your colors in your pages. If the color is not available you SHOULD reference a theme color instead of hardcoding your color

For your information, IAP project files are located as such:

Configuring restricted search pages

By default, only functionaladmin, auditor and technicaladmin have access to all the search pages in order to enforce the least privilege principle In very specific use case, you can be in a situation where you want to break the least privilege principle and to open the door for some business user by allowing them to perfom search on sub-perimeters of the Identity Ledger.

This is actually done through the standard search pages for application owners, repository owners and line managers. In this case, those search pages content are restricted to the owner perimeter. This is done thanks to dedicated standard dynamic roles with `perimeter'. See features and roles for more information about how to configure roles and perimeters in your project.

At the end of the day, search pages are restricted as such using perimeters:

As you can see, except for organisation, you can also grant access to the search pages using custom roles if you have properly configured the Perimeter for a given user.

Most probably you will have to create custom menu entries which will point to the search pages you want to publish, See RadiantOne Identity Analytics Product Documentation on how to configure your own menu entries. Search pages are located on webportal/pages/bw_portaluar_base/[entity]/details.page