What's New in the Oracle Identity Manager Connector for Novell eDirectory?

This chapter provides an overview of the updates made to the connector and documentation for Novell eDirectory in release 9.0.2 of the Oracle Identity Manager connector pack.

The updates discussed in this chapter are divided into the following categories:

• Software Updates

  These include updates made to the connector software.

• Documentation-Specific Updates

  These include major changes made to the connector documentation. These changes are not related to software updates.

See Also: Oracle Identity Manager Release Notes

Software Updates

This section discusses the following software updates implemented in this release of the connector.

Incorporation of Multilanguage Support

In addition to English, this release of the connector supports the French and Japanese languages. The following are documentation updates pertaining to the incorporation of this feature:

• The installation media directory includes resource bundle files for the languages supported by the connector. These resource bundle files are described in the "Files and Directories That Comprise the Connector" section.

• The "Step 2: Copying the Connector Files and External Code" section specifies the destination directory into which you must copy the resource bundle files during the deployment procedure.

• The "Step 3: Configuring the Oracle Identity Manager Server" section describes the procedure to change to the required input locale and to clear content related to connector resource bundles from the server cache.

• Changes have been made to the procedure described in the "Running Test Cases" to accommodate the multilanguage support feature.

• Chapter 4, "Known Issues" discusses a new issue related to the use of non-English locales.

Determining the Release Number of the Connector

Instructions to determine the release number of the connector are given in the "Determining the Release Number of the Connector" section.

Support for Microsoft Windows 2003 As a Target System

In the "Step 1: Verifying Deployment Requirements" section, Microsoft Windows 2003 has been added to the list of supported target system host platforms.

Introduction of Trusted Source Reconciliation

The following sections have been updated to accommodate the introduction of trusted source reconciliation:

• The XML file to be imported if you want to implement trusted source reconciliation has been mentioned in the following sections:

  • Files and Directories That Comprise the Connector

  • Step 2: Copying the Connector Files and External Code

• In the "Reconciliation Module" section, the list of fields that are reconciled if trusted source reconciliation is implemented has been added.

• In the "Specifying Values for the Scheduled Task Attributes" section, the following have been added to the list of user reconciliation scheduled task attributes:

  • TrustedSource

  • Xellerate Type

  • Password

  • Organization

  • Role

• Instructions and pointers to information about configuring trusted source reconciliation have been moved to the "Configuring Trusted Source Reconciliation" section.

Documentation-Specific Updates

The following documentation-specific updates have been made in this release of the guide:

• Oracle Identity Manager uses a Novell eDirectory user account to connect to and exchange data with Novell eDirectory. The "Step 1: Verifying Deployment Requirements" section provides information about the minimum rights that must be assigned to this user account.

• Instructions to copy the connector JAR files and adapter files to all the nodes of a clustered environment have been added in the following sections:

  • Step 2: Copying the Connector Files and External Code

  • Step 3: Configuring the Oracle Identity Manager Server

  • Step 6: Compiling Adapters

• In the "Specifying Values for the Scheduled Task Attributes" section, some changes have been made in the values that can be assigned to the lookup fields reconciliation scheduled task attributes.

• Instructions to use Oracle Identity Manager for linking multiple installations of Novell eDirectory are given in the "Configuring the Connector for Multiple Installations of the Target System" section.

• Appendix A provides information about attribute mappings between Oracle Identity Manager and Novell eDirectory.

• In the "Troubleshooting" section, the table has been broken down into multiple tables on the basis of type of error.