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Managed By Life Cycle Schedule

The Managed By Life Cycle schedule updates the temporary additional owners for groups and temporary additional managers for users in an identity store. It performs the following functions:

  • Group owners and users with the ‘Manage any Group’ permission in the identity store can set a start and end date to:

    • Add an object as a temporary additional owner of a group
    • Remove an additional owner for a temporary period

    The Managed By Life Cycle schedule adds and removes an object as a group’s temporary additional owner on the specified dates.

  • User managers and users with the ‘Manage any Profile’ permission in the identity store can set a start and end date to:

    • Add an object (user or contact) as a temporary additional manager of a user
    • Remove an additional manager for a temporary period

    The Managed By Life Cycle schedule adds and removes an object as the user’s temporary additional manager on the specified dates.

Let’s assume that the Managed By Life Cycle schedule is scheduled to run once a week, say Mondays. If an object is to be added as a group’s temporary additional owner for three days - Wednesday till Friday, it will not be added. This happens because the Managed By Life Cycle schedule did not run on the specific days for temporary ownership update. Make sure the schedule is set to run at a frequency that meets your temporary ownership requirements.

Directory Manager generates notifications when the Managed By Life Cycle schedule adds or removes temporary additional owners/managers. See the Manage Managed by Life Cycle Notifications topic for additional information.

Create a Managed By Life Cycle Schedule​

Follow the steps to create a Managed by Life Cycle Schedule.

Step 1 – In Admin Center, click Identity Stores in the left pane.

Step 2 – On the Identity Stores page, click the ellipsis button for an identity store and select Edit.

Step 3 – Click Schedules under Settings in the left pane.

Step 4 – On the Schedules page, click Add Schedule and select Managed By Life Cycle Job. The Create  Schedule page is displayed.

Step 5 – In the Schedule Name box, enter a name for the schedule.

Step 6 – The Name Preview box displays the schedule name prefixed with _ManagedByLifeCycle___; the schedule is displayed with this name in email notifications.

Step 7 – Select a Directory Manager portal URL in the Portal URL drop-down list to include it in notifications generated by the schedule. Users are redirected to this portal to perform any necessary action.

Step 8 – In the Scheduler Service Name drop-down list, select a Scheduler service that would be responsible for triggering this schedule. The number of services displayed in the list depend on the number of nodes in all Elasticsearch clusters in the environment, as each node has its own Scheduler service. See the Scheduler Service topic for additional information.

Step 9 – You can specify containers as targets for the schedule. The schedule will process all groups in the selected containers and sub-containers. To specific containers as target, see step 9 in the Create a Group Usage Service Schedule topic.

Step 10 – Click Add Triggers in the Triggers area to specify a triggering criterion for the schedule, that, when met, starts the execution of the schedule. Follow step 11 in the Create a Group Usage Service Schedule topic to manage triggers.

Step 11 – Click Add Authentication in the Authentication area to specify an account for running the schedule in the identity store. Follow step 12 in the Create a Group Usage Service Schedule topic for for additional information.

Step 12 – On the Create Schedule page, click Create Schedule.

Step 13 – On the Schedules page, click Save.
The schedule is displayed under Managed By Life Cycle. See the View the Schedules in an Identity Store  topic for additional information.