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Welcome
The Sun Java™ System Identity Manager system enables you to securely and efficiently manage access to accounts and resources. By giving you the capabilities and tools to quickly handle periodic and daily tasks, Identity Manager facilitates exceptional service to internal and external customers.
Product OverviewToday’s businesses require increased flexibility and capabilities from their IT services. Historically, managing access to business information and systems required direct interaction with a limited number of accounts. Increasingly, managing access means handling not only increased numbers of internal customers, but also partners and customers beyond your enterprise.
The overhead created by this increased need for access can be substantial. As an administrator, you must effectively and securely enable people – both inside and outside your enterprise – to do their jobs. And after you provide initial access, you face continuing detailed challenges, such as forgotten passwords, and changed roles and business relationships.
Identity Manager was developed specifically to help you manage these administrative challenges in a dynamic environment. By using Identity Manager to distribute access management overhead, you can facilitate a solution to your primary challenges: How do I define access? And once defined, how do I maintain flexibility and control?
A secure, yet flexible design lets you set up Identity Manager to accommodate the structure of your enterprise and answer these challenges. By mapping Identity Manager objects to the entities you manage – users and resources – you significantly increase the efficiency of your operations.
The Identity Manager solution lets you:
- Manage account access to a large variety of systems and resources.
- Securely manage dynamic account information for each user’s array of accounts.
- Set up delegated rights to create and manage user account data.
- Handle large numbers of enterprise resources, as well as an increasingly large number of extranet customers and partners.
- Securely authorize user access to enterprise information systems. With Identity Manager, you have fully integrated functionality to grant, manage, and revoke access privileges across internal and external organizations.
- Keep data in sync by not keeping data. The Identity Manager solution supports two key principles that superior systems management tools should observe:
Installation Overview
Note The procedures for installing and setting up the Identity Install Pack will differ according to the application server and database you are using.
This Quick Start Guide provides instructions for installing the Identity Install Pack on an Apache Tomcat 5.0 application server with a MySQL 5.0 repository and index database.
Perform the following tasks to install the Identity Install Pack:
- Evaluate your environment.
- Ensure you have administrator privileges on the resource to be managed.
- Install and set up prerequisite software.
- Set up a java virtual machine (JVM) and java compiler.
Note The Tomcat application server bundles JDK 1.4.2 with its installation. This JDK version is always preferred to any other JDK installed on your server.
- Set up a MySQL index database (if necessary).
- Install and configure the Apache Tomcat application server.
- Install and configure the Identity Install Pack software.
Notes:
- Identity Manager and Identity Auditor share the same jar file and are always installed or updated simultaneously.
- If you re-license the product you must import update.xml again to insure that you get all the objects for the products that are licensed to you.
- If you are using application servers with staging directories, be sure to keep the staging directory used for Identity Install Pack installation after deploying the product.
- Set up the Sun Identity Manager Gateway (optional).
- Set up PasswordSync (optional).
For some application server types and preferences, these general steps are combined, performed in a different order, or eliminated entirely.
Detailed installation instructions are provided in the Sun Java™ System Identity Install Pack 2005Q4M3 Installation.