NetIQ Identity Console 1.2 Release Notes

October 2020

NetIQ Identity Console 1.2 add various new features and resolves several previous issues. Many of these improvements were made in direct response to suggestions from our customers. We thank you for your time and valuable input. We hope you continue to help us ensure our products meet all your needs.

For more information about this release and for the latest release notes, see the Identity Console Documentation Web site. To download this product, see the NetIQ Downloads Web site.

1.0 What’s New

Identity Console 1.2 provides the following key features in this release:

1.1 New Features

This release introduces the following new features:

Support for Managing Identity Manager Drivers and Driver Sets

This version of Identity Console adds limited support for manging the Identity Manager drivers and driver sets. Using the Identity Console portal, you will be able to perform several tasks such as, associating servers, activating driver sets, starting and stopping drivers etc for your environment. For more information on the new capabilities, see Managing Drivers and Driver Sets in the Identity Console Administration Guide.

NOTE:Currently, multi-server association functionality is not available with this version of Identity Console. In case your existing driver sets are connected to multiple servers, you must ensure not to use associate server operation on multi-server driver set using Identity Console.

Support for Configuring Login/Post-Login Methods and Sequences

In this release, Identity Console introduces the capability to configure login and post-login methods and decide their sequences. For more information, see Managing Login and Post-Login Methods and Sequences in the Identity Console Administration Guide.

Support for Managing Password Policy and Challenge Sets

This version of Identity Console ships the capability to manage password policies and challenge sets. Using the Identity Console portal, you will be able to administer the rules required for creating an end user’s password and also configure the set of questionnaires that the user will have to answer to retrieve their forgotten passwords. For more information, see Managing Password Policies and Managing Challenge Sets in the Identity Console Administration Guide.

1.2 System Requirements

For information about prerequisites, computer requirements, installation, upgrade or migration, see Planning to Install Identity Console in the Identity Console Installation Guide.

2.0 Installing or Upgrading

Log in to the NetIQ Downloads page and follow the link that allows you to download the software. NetIQ provides a single tar.gz file to install Identity Console. Such as, IdentityConsole_120.tar.gz.

3.0 Supported Upgrade Paths

For more information on upgrading to Identity Console 1.2, see the Identity Console Installation Guide.

4.0 Known Issues

NetIQ Corporation strives to ensure our products provide quality solutions for your enterprise software needs. The following issues are currently being researched. If you need further assistance with any issue, please contact Technical Support.

4.1 Known Issues for Single Sign-On

The following list provides the summary of the known issues that you might come across while using the Identity Console portal with Single Sign-On:

  • The session timeout parameter com.netiq.idm.session-timeout specified in the ism-configuration properties file does not take effect in Identity Console. The portal fails to display the session time out warning message.

  • The session timeout parameter com.netiq.idm.session-timeout specified in the ism-configuration properties file does not take effect in Identity Console. The Identity Console portal does not log you out even if you log out from the Identity Applications (Identity Apps) which is using the same OSP instance.

  • The domain restriction set by com.netiq.oauth.domain parameter in the ism-configuration properties file does not take effect and allows you to login to Identity Console from any other domain.

  • If Identity Console is using the same OSP instance as Identity Apps, the Identity Console portal redirects you to the Identity Apps’ login page after logging out of the Identity Console portal. This occurs only for the first time after you restart the OSP server.

5.0 Legal Notice

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