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Preface
This guide describes how to use the Sun Java™ System Identity Manager software to provide secure user access to your enterprise information systems and applications. It illustrates procedures and scenarios to help you perform regular and periodic administrative tasks with the Identity Manager system.
How to Find Information in this Guide
The guide is organized in these chapters:
- Chapter 1. Identity Manager Overview — Provides high-level information about the Identity Manager product and objects.
- Chapter 2. Getting Started with Identity Manager — Introduces the Identity Manager interfaces and guides you to basic Identity Manager tasks.
- Chapter 3. User and Account Management — Details user management concepts and tasks.
- Chapter 4. Administration — Discusses delegated administration and provides procedures for working with Identity Manager administrators, organizations, and virtual organizations.
- Chapter 5. Configuration — Provides additional information and procedures about configuring Identity Manager objects such as roles, resources, policies, capabilities, and admin roles.
- Chapter 6. Data Synchronization and Loading — Discusses Identity Manager facilities for synchronizing data and loading groups of users.
- Chapter 7. Security — Describes Identity Manager security features and offers recommendations for best practices while using Identity Manager.
- Chapter 8. Reporting — Details the Identity Manager system's full-service reporting and risk analysis capabilities.
- Chapter 9. Task Templates — Shows you how to use the Administrator interface to configure certain workflow behaviors, as an alternative to writing customized workflows.
- Chapter 10. PasswordSync — describes the PasswordSync feature, which enables Windows systems to securely change and reset user passwords and synchronize them through Identity Manager.
Related Documentation and Help
Sun provides additional 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 Upgrade
Step-by-step instructions and reference information to help you upgrade 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 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 Deployment Tools
Reference and procedural information that describes how to use different Identity Manager deployment tools; including 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 Resources Reference
Reference and procedural information that describes how to load and synchronize account information from a resource into Identity Manager.
- Identity Manager Audit Logging
Reference and procedural information that describes how to load and synchronize account information from a resource into Identity Manager.
- Identity Manager Tuning, Troubleshooting and Error Messages
Reference and procedural information that describes Identity Manager error messages and exceptions, and provide instructions for tracing and troubleshooting problems you might encounter as you work.
- 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.
Product Support
If you have problems deploying or using Identity Manager, use one of these mechanisms to contact customer support:
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