Technical Solutions
Customizing IDM User Experience
Just about every client wants to be able to customize their web presence. For IDM, this includes several different points of customization for IDM Home. SSPR has one, User Application has another, OSP has a third. Each is different. There is no single point to customization for the IDM Home presentation. User Application was the first app to be…
Preconditions to be met before installing IDM 4.5.2x on RHEL 7.x
If you are planning to install IDM 4.5.2x on RHEL 7.x platforms, this is the right place for you to start. This article will guide you step by step with screenshots on how to meet the preconditions / prerequisites before installing IDM 4.5.x on RHEL 7.x platforms. Note: With the release of NetIQ Identity Manager…
nlpconfig: A CLI utility to work with LDAP Proxy configuration
NetIQ LDAP Proxy uses an XML configuration file nlpconf.xml. Sometimes it can get difficult editing the XML file repeatedly to try out policy combinations, complex condition flows, etc. This utility tries to make it slightly simpler by providing a shell friendly command line interface to view the configuration in a human-readable format on the console…
Reading through the OSP log file – Part 2
This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Reading through the OSP log fileIn the first part of this series I noted I would walk through the procedure a user login to OSP for IDMProv might take, and show a specific error I ran into. In the previous article I showed it rendering…
Reading through the OSP log file – Part 1
This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Reading through the OSP log fileIf you have been following the evolution of Identity Manager at NetIQ/Micro Focus you will have noticed how logins have changed with the latest versions of IDM 4.02 (Home and Provisioning Dashboard add on) and IDM 4.5 and higher. Previously…
String normalization – Removing accents and diacritic marks
An increasingly common requirement within Identity Management projects is to remove or substitute some characters in a given string. Usually these are non-English (ASCII) characters, accents and diacritic marks. We live in an increasingly global environment. This often causes challenges in identity projects where one must synchronise identity data (names, locations) from a diversity of different…
User App Error starting JMS Persistence for Notification
With Identity Manager 4.5 the way the User Application is configured changed a great deal. Previously, the configupdate.sh tool would do a fair bit of work, unpacking the IDMProv.war file, which is really just a very large ZIP file, changing some of the internal configuration files, and then repack it. As you can imagine, this…
Tips to find SQL Server CPU Bottlenecks
Many times you may experience regular slowdowns on MS SQL database. There could be many reasons for CPU bottleneck on MS SQL Server but one of the main reasons for CPU bottlenecks is insufficient hardware resources. However, CPU utilization can usually be reduced by configuration changes and query tuning so you may like to avoid…
Managing Office 365 license (Individual Service Plans) via Identity Manager
Office 365 licensing is unique where it is possible to mix and match various Enterprise Plans. The two common types of plans offered are Enterprise Packaged Plans and Enterprise Individual Plans. Currently there are three different packaged enterprise plans offered which are E1, E3, and E4. The enterprise…
Several Sentinel Collector are released!
VMware ESXi Collector 2011.1r5, Cisco IronPort Collector 2011.1r2, HP TippingPoint Collector 2011.1r2, Microsoft SQL Server Collector 2011.1r4, Cisco Firewall Collector 2011.1r4, and more…
