| Sun ONE Identity Server 6.0 Installation and Configuration Guide |
About This Guide
The Installation and Configuration Guide offers an introduction to Sun™ Open Network Environment (Sun ONE) Identity Server and describes how to plan and install Identity Server.
This preface contains the following sections:
What You Are Expected to KnowThis book is considered the “first” manual in the documentation series provided with Identity Server. It’s essential that you understand directory technologies and have some experience with Java and XML programming languages. You will get the most out of this guide if you are familiar with directory servers and Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). Particularly, you should be familiar with Sun ONE Directory Server and the documentation provided with that product.
This guide is intended for use by IT professionals who manage access to their network through Sun ONE servers and services. The functionality contained in Identity Server allows you to manage user data and enforce access policies throughout your enterprise.
Once you understand the concepts described in this guide, you will be ready to install Identity Server 6.0 and its components.
The Identity Server Documentation SetThe Sun ONE Identity Server documentation set contains the following guides:
- Installation and Configuration Guide details how to plan and install Identity Server.
- Administration Guide documents how to manage user and service data in an Identity Server system once it has been installed.
- Programmer’s Guide documents how to customize Identity Server interfaces.
- Policy Agent Guide documents how to install and deploy Sun ONE Identity Server Policy Agent on Web, Proxy, and Application Servers.
- The Release Notes gathers an assortment of information, including a description of what is new in this release, last minute installation changes, known problems and limitations, and how to report problems.
Documentation Conventions Used in This ManualIn the Identity Server documentation (such as this guide) there are certain typographic and terminology conventions used to simplify discussion and to help you better understand the material. These conventions are described below.
Typographic Conventions
This book uses the following typographic conventions:
- Italic type is used within text for book titles, new terminology, emphasis, and words used in the literal sense.
- Monospace font is used for sample code and code listings, API and language elements (such as function names and class names), filenames, pathnames, directory names, HTML tags, and any text that must be typed on the screen.
- Italic serif font is used within code and code fragments to indicate variable placeholders. For example, the following command uses filename as a variable placeholder for an argument to the gunzip command:
gunzip -d filename.tar.gz
Terminology
Below is a list of the general terms that are used in the Identity Server documentation set:
- Identity Server refers to Identity Server and any installed instances of the Identity Server software.
- Policy and Management services refers to the collective set of Identity Server components and software that are installed and running on a dedicated Web Server. The dedicated Web Server is installed for you automatically when you install the Policy and Management services.
- Web Server that runs Identity Server refers to the dedicated Web Server where the Policy and Management Services are installed.
- Directory Server refers to an installed instance of Sun ONE Directory Server or Netscape™ Directory Server.
- Identity_Server_root is a variable place holder for the home directory where you have installed Identity Server.
- Directory_Server_root is a variable place holder for the home directory where you have installed Sun ONE Directory Server.
- Web_Server_root is a variable place holder for the home directory where you have installed Sun ONE Web Server.
