Identity Governance contains two installation and configuration utilities. You use the two utilities for different tasks. The utilities are:
Configuration Update Utility: Three of the Identity Governance components use the Configuration Update utility to change settings instead of using the Identity Governance Configuration Utility. There is a separate utility because you can install and use some of these components with Identity Manager. The three components that use the Configuration Update utility are OSP, Identity Reporting, and Auditing.
Identity Governance Configuration Utility: The Identity Governance Configuration Utility allows you to modify settings for Identity Governance, such as the URL for Identity Governance, the authentication server, OSP, and email notifications. You can also specify an external provisioning system for workflows and the settings for collection and publication.
Identity Governance contains multiple components and you can install the components on the same servers or on different servers. Identity Governance uses databases and .properties files to store the configuration information. If you have Identity Governance and either Identity Reporting or OSP installed on the same servers, the GLOBAL configuration databases and the ism-configuration.properties file might contain duplicate settings.
When updating the values associated with the duplicate settings, the different installation utilities place the information in different locations. If you are updating a duplicate setting using the Configuration Update utility, the value ends up in the ism-configuration.properties file. If you are updating a duplicate setting using the Identity Governance Configuration Utility, the value ends up in the GLOBAL database.
If you are running Identity Governance, Identity Reporting, and OSP in a clustered environment, ensure that you run the Configuration Update utility on each server in the cluster to get the information populated on each server.