Technical Solutions
Reading an Identity Governance trace log – Part 1
Identity Governance is a new product from Micro Focus that allows you to validate that your users, accounts, and permissions they obtain are in compliance and approved. You can think of it as a way of proving that your Identity Management service is working properly. Like any complex application, you need to be able to…
An incomplete look at Enhanced Background Authentication
Recently I was confronted with an eDirectory server that was acting strangely. As sometimes happens when working in consulting, I do not have any personal history or notes to reference, I do not know who set it up, what they chose to do, why they chose to do it, or what has happened to it…
Forwarding Events from Sentinel or Access Manager Analytics Server to Splunk / ArcSight
This cool solution explains how Sentinel can be configured to forward events from Sentinel or Access Manager Analytics Server to 3rd party Syslog Servers like Splunk and ArcSight. By default, Splunk runs Syslog on UDP 514 and TCP 1514. These ports may be different in your Splunk environment…
Error Codes for Identity Governance – Part 2
I was working with a customer and we had all sorts of issues so I collected all sorts of errors, so lets go look at some more. For some reason, which I still do not know the root cause of, our centrally managed database just plain went away. Not sure why it was down, but it was, and in the end they had to restore from backup, which seemed a bit extreme. I thought figuring out what happened would be interesting…
Error Codes for Identity Governance – Part 1
This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Error Codes for Identity GovernanceI think that collecting errors and discussing them can be pretty helpful in terms of any product. I have this dream of finding a product that has all possible errors documented with examples. One day, one day my dream shall be…
Using the database purge tool in Identity Governance
The Identity Governance product from Micro Focus is a great tool for ensuring that the accounts and permissions your employees have access to are properly governed. You probably have an Identity Management system that is in charge of provisioning and deprovisioning access for users based on Human Resource’s changes to their employment status. Yet, you…
Configuring Advanced Authentication Integration with VMware Horizon View
This document provides information on how to configure Advanced Authentication with VMware View. To configure the Advanced Authentication integration with VMware View you’ll have to perform the following configuration tasks…
Getting Started with Identity Governance – Part 4
This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series Getting Started with Identity GovernanceI have been discussing the Identity Governance product in terms of interesting things I have noticed using it. I discussed the product, how to enable logging, and the identified the main configuration tools in the first article. In the second article…
Getting Started with Identity Governance – Part 3
This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series Getting Started with Identity GovernanceI have been discussing the Identity Governance product in terms of interesting things I have noticed using it. In trying to resolve these issues, I have not usually found the answer in the documentation, since it is impossible to document everything….
CloudFormation Template to deploy NetIQ Access Manager in AWS
NetIQ Access Manager 4.4 SP1 and later versions of Access Manager are supported to be deployed in leading public clouds such as AWS and Azure. The NAM_Deploy_AC_IDP_MAG_v1.yml CloudFormation Template (CFT) attached in this tool can be used to deploy the Access Manager components in AWS in the selected VPC This CFT will do the following:…
