The User Management of the WSO2 Carbon facilitates the management and control of user accounts and user roles at different levels. The user store of Carbon products can be configured to operate in either one of the following modes. And the functionality depend on it.
Modes of operationFigure 1: User Management
If the user store is operating in read/write mode you can,
If the user store is operating in read only mode you can,
You can also import users from existing user stores in bulk. You could be managing users in a relational database or a LDAP server. You can export users in to comma separated list (*.csv file) or to an excel sheet (*.xls files) and import into WSO2 Cloud Identity at once. This carbon version supports importing users from a .csv files and Excel sheets. The process can be high lighted as follows.
Step 1 : Export users from the current user store into a .csv file or excel sheet (97/2000/XP versions). Refer documentation and tools available with your current user store on how to export users.Figure 3 : Bulk Import Users using a file
Many visual LDAP tools support exporting users in .csv format. Tools such as Apache Directory Studio, LDAP Amin Tool and Active Directory has step-by-step instructions on how to do it. An example of how to use the LDAP Admin tool to export .csv file is available here [1]. Values in relational databases can also be obtained in .csv/.xls formats.The expected format of the CSV file is as follows. The first line of the CSV file will be ignored considering it is not a username.
The expected format of a Excel sheet is as follows. The first line of the Exceel sheet will be ignored considering it is not a username.
Figure 4 : Format of the Excel sheet
Step 2 : Login to WSO2 Cloud Identity as Organization Admin