Avoid using event base type policies

Products

• CA Identity Manager

Issue/Introduction

Defined event-Based PX Policy to trigger. The PX Policy is never evaluated and triggered. When making it Task-Based, the PX gets triggered. Does PX have an issue triggering event-type policies?

Environment

Identity Manager 14.4

Cause

For the information

Resolution

The general recommendation is to use UI and SubmittedTask type PX Policies wherever possible and to only use Event based PX policies if the business case cannot be achieved via UI and SubmittedTask based.  Event-based tended to be more problematic and less stable. The analogy being a bookshelf where it is less complex, easier, less problematic adding books to the front and end of the existing books (i.e. type=UI andvtype=SubmittedTask) then trying to jam the new book into the middle of the existing books (i.e. type=Event).