How this Book is Organized

This guide is organized into the following chapters and appendices:

Chapter 1, Identity Manager Overview describes how Identity Manager and the different Identity Manager objects help you manage administrative challenges in your dynamic working environment.

Chapter 2, Getting Started with the Identity Manager User Interface describes how to use Identity Manager's graphical user interface.

Chapter 3, User and Account Management describes how to create and manager users by using the Administrator interface.

Chapter 5, Roles and Resources contains information to help you understand Identity Manager roles and resources.

Chapter 4, Configuring Business Administration Objects contains information and procedures to help you set up and maintain Identity Manager business administration objects, such as policies, email templates, audit groups and events, and more.

Chapter 6, Administration describes how to use the Administrator interface to perform different administrator-level tasks. In addition, this chapter contains information about using roles, administrative roles, and capabilities.

Chapter 7, Data Loading and Synchronization describes how to use Identity Manager's data loading and synchronization features to keep your data current.

Chapter 8, Reporting introduces Identity Manager report types and explains how to create and manager reports.

Chapter 9, Task Templates introduces Identity Manager task templates and how to use them to configure workflow behaviors.

Chapter 10, Audit Logging describes Identity Manager's auditing system.

Chapter 11, PasswordSync describes how to install, configure, and use the PasswordSync feature to detect and synchronize password changes.

Chapter 12, Security describes how you can use Identity Manager to manage system security.

Chapter 13, Identity Auditing: Basic Concepts introduces identity auditing concepts and audit controls.

Chapter 14, Auditing: Audit Policies describes how to create and manage audit policies by using the Audit Policy Wizard.

Chapter 15, Auditing: Monitoring Compliance describes how to perform audit reviews and manage compliance with federally mandated regulations.

Chapter 16, Data Exporter introduces the Data Exporter feature and explains how to use this feature to write information about users, roles, and other object types to an external data warehouse.

Chapter 17, Service Provider Administration describes how to configure and administer the Service Provider feature.

Appendix A, lh Reference explains how to use the Identity Manager command line interface.

Appendix B, Audit Log Database Schema contains information about audit data schema values for supported database types and audit log mappings.

Appendix C, User Interface Quick Reference provides a quick reference indicating how to accomplish commonly performed tasks in Identity Manager.

Appendix D, Capabilities Definitions provides a quick reference describing the task-based and functional capabilities you can assign to users