When importing from ASM and selecting matching criteria, what does "Source System Identifier" refer to?

[Olson]

I don't see a field in the ASM cvs templates called "Source System Identifier". I'd like to match against userid in JSS and sis_username in ASM.

Oh by the way, I've not uploaded the cvs files yet. Would I have access to more matching criteria once that's done?

Thanks

[cdenesha]

@Olson That is a good question that I had to ask as well. It refers to the unique ID person_id that ties users to classes etc. It does NOT refer to the SSID/SASID of the student.

Go with username matching.

[Olson]

Thanks for that info.
My username's in the JSS are last_namefirst_initial or last_namefirst_name in some cases.
My person_id's are numbers for students and staff in the csv files. So how do I match username and my only two choices for matching, the managed AppleID or the unique person_id? Neither that will match my usernames in the JSS.

[Olson]

Ahhhh, I did an import with nothing in ASM and now I have Source System Identifier (SSI) on the JSS side. Now I'm adding the SSI from my csv's into the existing user account in the JSS.

I'm also confused about the rosters file, but seems like each record need a unique ID, so I generated a list of UUID's and use those.

[Hedley]

I'm also confused about the rosters file, but seems like each record need a unique ID, so I generated a list of UUID's and use those.

@Olson Were you able to import your rosters.csv using UUIDs? I attempted to use UUIDs throughout all CSVs in a test dataset, and it locked up the sftp import process. I was advised to try not using, "...such a long value." Which was strange because UUIDs are recommended in the readme. Anyway, I shortened the UUIDs down to the first 8 characters, and the import process went through for my test dataset. Were you able to use UUIDs yourself?

[RLR]

Can you only create classes in Apple School Manager using Managed Apple IDs? I'd like to take advantage of the CSV upload feature in Apple School Manager to create our classes but can't see how to do this without a Managed Apple ID.

[cdenesha]

@RLR The ASM import will always create Managed Apple IDs. However you don't have to use them. Keep in mind that the ASM sync to Casper will want to create new users that are in the classes so as long as the ASM username (the part before the @ sign) is your Casper username that would be ok. Also keep in mind that as of now the ASM sync creates JSS user objects, not LDAP users.

@Hedley I uploaded my test data to ASM with GUIDs, no problems.