Adding an alias to an EIM identifier

You may want to create an alias to provide additional distinguishing information for an EIM identifier. Aliases can aid in locating a specific Enterprise Identity Mapping (EIM) identifier when performing an EIM lookup operation. For example, aliases can be useful in situations where someone's legal name is different from the name that person is known as.

EIM identifier names must be unique within an EIM domain. Aliases can help address situations where using unique identifier names can be difficult. For example, different individuals within an enterprise can share the same name, which can be confusing if you are using proper names as EIM identifiers. For example, if you have two users named John J. Johnson, you could create an alias of John Joseph Johnson for one and an alias of John Jeffrey Johnson to make it easier to distinguish the identity of each user. The additional aliases might contain each user's employee number, department number, job title, or other distinguishing attribute.

To add an alias to an EIM identifier, you must be connected to the EIM domain in which you want to work and you must have EIM access control at one of these levels:

  • EIM administrator.
  • Identifier administrator.

To add an alias to an EIM identifier, complete these steps.

  1. Expand Network > Enterprise Identity Mapping > Domain Management.
  2. Select the EIM domain in which you want to work.
  3. Expand the EIM domain to which you are connected.
  4. Click Identifiers to display, in the right pane, a list of EIM identifiers available in the domain.
    Note: Sometimes when you attempt to expand the Identifiers folder, it may take a long time before the list of identifiers displays. To improve performance when you have a large number of EIM identifiers in the domain, review Customizing the EIM identifiers view.
  5. Right-click the EIM identifier for which you want to add an alias and select Properties.
  6. In the Alias field, specify the name of the alias you want to add to this EIM identifier, and click Add.
  7. Click OK to save your changes to the EIM identifier.
Parent topic: Managing Enterprise Identity Mapping identifiers