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Preface
This guide provides detailed information and instructions to help you upgrade the Sun™ Identity Manager (Identity Manager) product.
Note
If your current Identity Manager installation has a large amount of custom work, contact your Sun Professional Services about getting assistance with your upgrade.
Who Should Use This BookSun™ Identity Manager Upgrade was designed for deployers and system administrators who are responsible for upgrading and configuring Identity Manager and associated software in a Production environment.
How This Book Is OrganizedIdentity Manager Upgrade is organized into these chapters:
- Chapter 1, "Overview of the Upgrade Process," provides an overview of the upgrade process.
- Chapter 2, "Planning," helps you identify goals and gather information to prepare for upgrading Identity Manager.
- Chapter 3, "Developing and Testing Your Upgrade," provides guidelines for developing and verifying your upgrade procedure.
- Chapter 4, "User Acceptance Testing," describes how to test your upgrade in an environment that simulates your Production environment.
- Chapter 5, "Upgrading Your Production Environment," provides information and suggestions for upgrading your Production environment.
- Appendix A, "Skip-Level Upgrade Considerations," describes extra steps you must perform to upgrade Identity Manager more than one version at a time.
- Appendix B, "Assessment Worksheets," provides worksheets that help you gather information in preparation for upgrading.
Conventions Used in This BookThe tables in this section describe the conventions used in this book including:
Typographic Conventions
The following table describes the typographic conventions used in this book.
Symbols
The following table describes the symbol conventions used in this book.
Shell Prompts
The following table describes the shell prompts used in this book.
Related Documentation and HelpSun provides additional printed and online documentation and information to help you install, use, and configure Identity Manager:
- Identity Manager Installation: Step-by-step instructions and reference information to help you install and configure Identity Manager and associated software.
- Identity Manager Administration: Procedures, tutorials, and examples that describe how to use Identity Manager to provide secure user access to your enterprise information systems.
- Identity Manager Technical Deployment Overview: Conceptual overview of the Identity Manager product (including object architectures) with an introduction to basic product components.
- Identity Manager Deployment Tools: Reference and procedural information that describes how to use different Identity Manager deployment tool. This information addresses rules and rules libraries, common tasks and processes, dictionary support, and the SOAP-based Web service interface provided by the Identity Manager server.
- Identity Manager Workflows, Forms, and Views: Reference and procedural information that describes how to use the Identity Manager workflows, forms, and views — including information about the tools you need to customize these objects.
- Identity Manager Resources Reference: Reference and procedural information that describes how to load and synchronize account information from a resource into Sun Java™ System Identity Manager.
- Identity Manager Tuning, Troubleshooting, and Error Messages: Reference and procedural information that provides guidance for tuning Sun Java™ System Identity Manager, provide instructions for tracing and troubleshooting problems, and describe the error messages and exceptions you might encounter as you work with the product.
- Identity Manager Service Provider Deployment: Reference and procedural information that describes how to plan and implement Sun Java™ System Identity Manager Service Provider.
- Identity Manager Help: Online guidance and information that offer complete procedural, reference, and terminology information about Identity Manager. You can access help by clicking the Help link from the Identity Manager menu bar. Guidance (field-specific information) is available on key fields.
Accessing Sun Resources OnlineFor product downloads, professional services, patches and support, and additional developer information, go to the following:
- Download Center
http://wwws.sun.com/software/download/- Professional Services
http://www.sun.com/service/sunps/sunone/index.html- Sun Enterprise Services, Solaris Patches, and Support
http://sunsolve.sun.com/- Developer Information
http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/index.html
Contacting Sun Technical SupportIf you have technical questions about this product that are not answered in the product documentation, contact customer support using one of the following mechanisms:
- The online support Web site at http://www.sun.com/service/online/us
- The telephone dispatch number associated with your maintenance contract
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