3.3 Installing Identity Server on Windows

3.3.1 Points to Consider for Installing Identity Server on Windows

  • Ensure that you have read and implemented prerequisites specified in Prerequisites for Installing Identity Server.

  • Ensure that the hard disk has ample space for logging in a production environment. This disk space must be local and not remote.

  • Ensure that the operating system is in either Standard or Enterprise Edition with the latest patches applied.

IMPORTANT:No LDAP software, such as eDirectory or OpenLDAP, can be installed.

For information about browser support, see Browser Support in the NetIQ Access Manager System Requirements guide.

For information about network requirements, see Section 1.3, Network Requirements.

3.3.2 Installation Procedure

Installation time: about 10 minutes.

What you need to know to install Identity Server

  • Username and password of the administrator.

  • (Conditional) IP address of Administration Console if it is installed on a separate machine.

  1. (Conditional) If you have installed Administration Console on this server, ensure that you have restarted the server before installing Identity Server.

  2. Download the ZIP file and extract it.

    For software download instructions and the filename, see the release-specific Release Notes.

  3. Double-click the <ZIP filename>.exe file from the extracted folder.

  4. Read the introduction, then click Next.

  5. Accept the license agreement, then click Next.

  6. Select Access Manager Identity Provider, then click Next.

    A warning is displayed: If NAT is present between this machine and Administration Console, the NAT configuration needs to be done in Administration Console.

  7. Specify the IP address, user ID, and password for the primary Administration Console.

  8. (Optional) Specify Identity Server Local NAT IP address, if the device is behind NAT.

  9. Click Next, review the summary, and click Install.

  10. (Conditional) If you are installing Identity Server on a machine that contains a previous installation of Administration Console, you are asked whether the program should overwrite an existing file in the \Program Files\Novell directory. Specify yes.

  11. Continue with one of the following actions:

NOTE:After installing Identity Server, you must create a cluster configuration. See Configuring Identity Servers Clusters in the Access Manager 4.5 Administration Guide.