3.2 Understanding the Installation and Configuration Process

Interactive Installation: In an interactive installation, you must specify the inputs in an interactive mode. OpenText Identity Manager provides a scripted installation program for installing and configuring individual components or a group of components in two separate phases. The installation phase installs the components. The installation script, install.sh, is located in the root of the .iso image file of the OpenText Identity Manager installation package. For information about configuration, see Configuration.

Table 3-1 Installation Options

Installation Option

Components Installed

OpenText Identity Manager Engine

Installs the Identity Vault, OpenText Identity Manager engine, and OpenText Identity Manager drivers. The installation process also installs Azul Zulu JDK.

Identity Manager Remote Loader Server

Installs the Remote Loader service and the driver instances in the Remote Loader.

Identity Manager Fanout Agent

Installs the Fanout agent for the JDBC Fanout driver. For more information, see Installing the Fanout Agent with OpenText Identity Manager 4.10.

Identity Applications

Installs several components that provide the underlying framework for the identity applications.

  • User Application

  • OSP

  • SSPR

  • Tomcat

  • PostgreSQL database

To support the Tomcat application server, the installation program installs supported versions of JRE and Apache ActiveMQ.

The installation process also deploys the User Application driver and the Role and Resource Service driver to the Identity Vault.

Identity Reporting

Installs several components that provide the underlying framework for Identity Reporting.

  • Identity Reporting

  • Managed System Gateway driver (MSGW)

  • Data Collection Service driver (DCS)

  • OSP (when installed on a different server than Identity Applications)

  • Tomcat (when installed on a different server than Identity Applications)

  • PostgreSQL database (when installed on a different server than Identity Applications)

To support the Tomcat application server, the installation program installs a supported version of JRE.

NOTE:OpenText Identity Manager provides separate installation programs for Designer, Analyzer, and Sentinel Log Management.

Silent Installation: The installer provides an option to create a silent properties file in an interactive mode. You can record the installation options in the properties file and then use the file to run the silent installation on different servers in your environment. The silent installation program reads the values from the file to perform the installation. For details on the component-wise configuration, see Understanding the Configuration Parameters.

Configuration: OpenText Identity Manager provides two modes of configuration:

  • Typical configuration

  • Custom configuration

A typical configuration assumes default settings for most of the configuration options. In a custom configuration, you can specify custom values according to your requirement. You can configure most of the settings using this option.