Ceridian Dayforce

  • Updated on Mar 20, 2025
  • Published on Mar 10, 2022
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Ceridian Dayforce is an HR cloud platform that delivers payroll, benefits, workforce, and talent management.


Types of Assets Fetched

This adapter fetches the following types of assets:

  • Users
  • Managed Identities

Parameters

  1. Host Name or IP Address (required) - The hostname or IP address of the Ceridian Dayforce server.

  2. Client Namespace (required) - Specify the Client Namespace of the Ceridian Dayforce server.

  3. User Name and Password (required) - The credentials for a user account that has the permissions to fetch assets.

  4. Verify SSL - Select whether to verify the SSL certificate of the server against the CA database inside of Axonius. For more details, see SSL Trust & CA Settings.

  5. HTTPS Proxy (optional) - A proxy to use when connecting to the value supplied in Host Name or IP Address.

  6. HTTPS Proxy User Name (optional) - The user name to use when connecting to the value supplied in Host Name or IP Address via the value supplied in HTTPS Proxy.

  7. HTTPS Proxy Password (optional) - The password to use when connecting to the value supplied in Host Name or IP Address via the value supplied in HTTPS Proxy.

To learn more about common adapter connection parameters and buttons, see Adding a New Adapter Connection.

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Advanced Settings

Note:

Advanced settings can either apply to all connections for this adapter, or to a specific connection. Refer to Advanced Configuration for Adapters.

  1. Async Chunks (optional, default: 20) - Specify the number of chunks of the asynchronous parallel requests for all connections to fetch.
  2. Use Employee Number for Employee ID (optional) - Select to force Axonius to set the aggregated Employee ID field with the Employee Number from the Ceridian Dayforce adapter to correlate users.
Note:

Only select Use Employee Number for Employee ID when correlation results aren't correct.


Note:

To learn more about Adapter Configuration tab advanced settings, see Adapter Advanced Settings.


APIs

Axonius uses the Dayforce API. /V1/Employees endpoint Dayforce Documentation

The following Ceridian Dayforce expanders are used: 'EmploymentStatuses,WorkAssignments,Contacts,EmployeeManagers'

Required Ports

Axonius must be able to communicate with the value supplied in Host Name or IP Address via the following ports:

  • TCP port 443/8080

Version Matrix

This adapter was only tested with the versions marked as supported, but may work with other versions. Contact Axonius Support if you have a version that is not listed, which is not functioning as expected.

Version Supported Notes
Ceridian Dayforce Version 1 Yes

Supported From Version

Supported from Axonius version 4.5

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