Technical Solutions
Using Check Object password for authentication
If you have ever worked with a SOAP or REST driver you will know that they support both sending messages (SOAP usually as XML, or REST as JSON or XML) but also that they support listening for incoming events. Thus you can set up your IDM SOAP or REST driver to be a listening endpoint…
Integrating Akamai EAA and Access Manager using SAML2
Akamai Enterprise Application Access (EAA) is a hybrid (cloud and on-premise) solution that shifts the attack surface of a DMZ in a secure cloud bastion. The whole idea is to control and secure access without any distinction between internal…
Build Custom Authentication Class for performing Authentication and Authorization together
Koushik Halder shares a step-by-step process for creating a custom authentication class and how to perform authentication and authorization together. The class will also return authentication or authorization errors to the login form…
Enable Geolocation in Access Manager Analytics Dashboard
Geolocation dashboard shows a map with the number of logged in users in a specific geographical location. This solution will demonstrate how to use Maxmind Geolocation Provider with Analytics.
Customizing your IT Monitoring Environment: AppManager has Options
Each IT environment is unique. And while monitoring solutions often provide hundreds of agents to monitor different aspects of your environment (or take an agentless approach)—there is always a need to customize your monitoring solution to fit your IT environment. Sometimes, this is done through configuration changes. However, configuration changes usually only get you so…
Configure Access Manager to Use Custom and Complex Authorization Logic Using Policy Extension (Condition Policy)
Authorization policies are used when you want to protect a resource based on criteria other than authentication and you want Access Manager to enforce the access restrictions. Authorization policies are enforced when a user requests data from a resource…
Designer Title Customizer
A Designer plugin that displays the version (as displayed in Help – About) and connect mode (NCP or LDAP) in the window title, defaulting to something like “Designer 4.6.1 (LDAP)”.
Cloud and the Service Catalog
I haven’t blogged in quite some time. I was looking around at some of my old blogs and wondered if my account was still active. As you can see, I was able to log in. I figured, what the heck, why not do a blog… here you go! I’ve been doing a lot of work…
Configure Access Manager to Use Custom and Complex Identity Injection Logic Using Data Extension
Identity injection allows you to add information to the URL, Custom Header, or to the HTML page before it is posted to a Web server. The Web server uses this information to determine whether the user can have access to the resource, so it is the Web server that determines the information that…
JPATH for IDM Rest Driver
It is good to know that in the recently concluded essay contest on describing what’s great about Micro Focus products, the winning entry on IAM did deal quite a bit with the IDM Rest Driver. The best part about this driver is that it is Generic…
