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Role Mismatch Best Practice

sab2
Regular Contributor
Regular Contributor

Hello,

We are trying to figure out the best strategy to use for role mismatch scenarios. I read on documentation and forums about using Saviynt analytics to capture users with roles which are missing entitlements. Also using the analytics as actionable analytics to assign the missing entitlements back to a user/role. Is this the recommended solution? Or would it be recommended to remove the role entirely. We are trying to understand how to handle this situation.

Also, I read on Saviynt documentation about the Saviynt feature ‘Role Intelligence > Role Access Mismatch’. Which is used for scenarios like this. Has this been used successfully by anyone? I tried in two different Saviynt environments and receive an error both times when trying to test it out.

Any advice or best practices would be greatly appreciated.

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rushikeshvartak
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We explored this feature but end up creating new report to use features 

  • report does not provide feature to add missing access ( created new actionable analytics)
  • report we can remove extra access and it works well

 

In overall you can use functionality but having limitations 


Regards,
Rushikesh Vartak
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MichaelWoodruff
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Can I ask what query you used for your report?  We have had no luck with the role access mismatches.

SELECT CASE WHEN rva.MISMATCH_TYPE = 'ENDDATE_MISMATCH' THEN 'End Date Mismatch' WHEN rva.MISMATCH_TYPE = 'EXTRA' THEN 'Surplus Access' WHEN rva.MISMATCH_TYPE = 'MISSED' THEN 'Missing Access' ELSE rva.MISMATCH_TYPE END as 'Mismatch Type', CASE WHEN rva.MISMATCH_TYPE = 'ENDDATE_MISMATCH' THEN 'End Date Mismatch' WHEN rva.MISMATCH_TYPE = 'EXTRA' THEN 'Surplus Access' WHEN rva.MISMATCH_TYPE = 'MISSED' THEN 'Missing Access' ELSE rva.MISMATCH_TYPE END as mismatchType, CASE WHEN rva.REASON IN ('ANALYTICS_V2' , 'ANALYTICS') THEN 'Deprovisioned from Analytics' WHEN rva.REASON IN ('REQUEST', 'CERTIFICATION') THEN CONCAT('Deprovisioned from ', CONCAT(UCASE(LEFT(LCASE(rva.REASON), 1)), SUBSTRING(LCASE(rva.REASON), 2))) WHEN rva.REASON = 'WEBSERVICE' THEN 'Deprovisioned from API' WHEN rva.REASON = 'ZERODAY' THEN 'Deprovisioned from BirthRight' WHEN rva.REASON = 'SOD' THEN 'Deprovisioned from SOD' WHEN rva.REASON = 'PROVRULE' THEN 'Deprovisioned from Rule' WHEN rva.REASON = 'NOT_REQUESTABLE' THEN 'Non Requestable Entitlement Type' WHEN rva.REASON = 'INCOMPLETE_TASK' THEN 'Incomplete Task' WHEN rva.REASON = 'PROVISIONING_ERROR' THEN 'Provisioning Error' WHEN rva.REASON = 'OTHERS' THEN 'Others' WHEN rva.REASON = 'INACTIVE_ACCOUNTS' THEN 'Inactive Accounts' WHEN rva.REASON = 'UNKNOWN' THEN 'Unknown' WHEN rva.REASON = 'DEPROVISIONING_ERROR' THEN 'Deprovisioning Error' WHEN rva.REASON = 'ENTITLEMENT_NOT_PRESENT' THEN 'Entitlement is not Present in Role' WHEN rva.REASON = 'ENTITLEMENT_NOT_PRESENT_CHILD_ROLE' THEN 'Entitlement is not Present in Child Role' WHEN rva.REASON = 'INACTIVE_ROLE' THEN 'Inactive Role is Present With User' WHEN rva.REASON = 'INACTIVE_CHILD_ROLE' THEN 'Inactive Child Role is Present With User' WHEN rva.REASON = 'INACTIVE_USERS' THEN 'Inactive Users' WHEN rva.REASON = 'LOWER_ENTITLEMENT_END_DATE' THEN 'Lower Entitlement End Date' WHEN rva.REASON = 'HIGHER_ENTITLEMENT_END_DATE' THEN 'Higher Entitlement End Date' WHEN rva.REASON = 'ROLE_NOT_ASSIGNED' THEN 'Role not Assigned to User' WHEN rva.REASON = 'CHILD_ROLE_NOT_ASSIGNED' THEN 'Child Role not Assigned to User' ELSE 'Unknown' END AS 'Reason', CASE WHEN rva.REASON IN ('ANALYTICS_V2' , 'ANALYTICS') THEN 'Deprovisioned from Analytics' WHEN rva.REASON IN ('REQUEST', 'CERTIFICATION') THEN CONCAT('Deprovisioned from ', CONCAT(UCASE(LEFT(LCASE(rva.REASON), 1)), SUBSTRING(LCASE(rva.REASON), 2))) WHEN rva.REASON = 'WEBSERVICE' THEN 'Deprovisioned from API' WHEN rva.REASON = 'ZERODAY' THEN 'Deprovisioned from BirthRight' WHEN rva.REASON = 'SOD' THEN 'Deprovisioned from SOD' WHEN rva.REASON = 'PROVRULE' THEN 'Deprovisioned from Rule' WHEN rva.REASON = 'NOT_REQUESTABLE' THEN 'Non Requestable Entitlement Type' WHEN rva.REASON = 'INCOMPLETE_TASK' THEN 'Incomplete Task' WHEN rva.REASON = 'PROVISIONING_ERROR' THEN 'Provisioning Error' WHEN rva.REASON = 'OTHERS' THEN 'Others' WHEN rva.REASON = 'INACTIVE_ACCOUNTS' THEN 'Inactive Accounts' WHEN rva.REASON = 'UNKNOWN' THEN 'Unknown' WHEN rva.REASON = 'DEPROVISIONING_ERROR' THEN 'Deprovisioning Error' WHEN rva.REASON = 'ENTITLEMENT_NOT_PRESENT' THEN 'Entitlement is not Present in Role' WHEN rva.REASON = 'ENTITLEMENT_NOT_PRESENT_CHILD_ROLE' THEN 'Entitlement is not Present in Child Role' WHEN rva.REASON = 'INACTIVE_ROLE' THEN 'Inactive Role is Present With User' WHEN rva.REASON = 'INACTIVE_CHILD_ROLE' THEN 'Inactive Child Role is Present With User' WHEN rva.REASON = 'INACTIVE_USERS' THEN 'Inactive Users' WHEN rva.REASON = 'LOWER_ENTITLEMENT_END_DATE' THEN 'Lower Entitlement End Date' WHEN rva.REASON = 'HIGHER_ENTITLEMENT_END_DATE' THEN 'Higher Entitlement End Date' WHEN rva.REASON = 'ROLE_NOT_ASSIGNED' THEN 'Role not Assigned to User' WHEN rva.REASON = 'CHILD_ROLE_NOT_ASSIGNED' THEN 'Child Role not Assigned to User' ELSE 'Unknown' END AS mismatchSource, u.username as Username, u.FIRSTNAME as 'First Name', u.LASTNAME as 'Last Name', IFNULL(r.DISPLAYNAME, r.ROLE_NAME) as 'Role Name', rva.RUA_ENDDATE as 'Role End Date', IFNULL(cr.DISPLAYNAME, cr.ROLE_NAME) as 'Child Role', a.name as 'Account Name', et.entitlementname as 'Entitlement Type', ev.entitlement_value as 'Entitlement Value', rva.AE_ENDDATE as 'Entitlement End Date', rva.MISMATCH_SOURCEKEY as 'Reason Task Id', rva.entitlement_valuekey as entvaluekey, rva.rolekey as roleKey, rva.userkey as userKey, rva.accountkey as acctKey, rva.MISMATCH_SOURCEKEY as taskKey, rva. RUA_ENDDATE as ruaEndDate, rva.CHILDROLEKEY as childRoleKey, 'Align Role Access Mismatch' as Default_Action_For_Analytics FROM ROLEACCESSMISMATCHES rva LEFT JOIN users u ON rva.userkey=u.userkey INNER JOIN roles r ON rva.rolekey=r.rolekey LEFT JOIN roles cr ON rva.CHILDROLEKEY = cr.ROLEKEY INNER JOIN accounts a ON rva.accountkey=a.accountkey INNER JOIN entitlement_values ev ON rva.ENTITLEMENT_VALUEKEY=ev.entitlement_valuekey INNER JOIN entitlement_types et ON ev.entitlementtypekey=et.entitlementtypekey;

Regards,
Rushikesh Vartak
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