The following sections provide information about how the SAP Portal driver supports standard driver features:
A local installation is an installation of the driver on the same server as the Metadirectory engine and the Identity Vault.
The SAP Portal driver can be installed on the same operating systems supported by the Metadirectory engine. For information, see System Requirements for the Identity Manager Engine in the NetIQ Identity Manager Setup Guide.
You can install the Remote Loader if you don’t want to install the Metadirectory engine and the Identity Vault (eDirectory) on the same server.
The SAP Portal driver can be installed on the same operating systems supported by the Remote Loader. For information, see System Requirements for the Remote Loader in the NetIQ Identity Manager Setup Guide.
Entitlements are a way to set up a list of criteria to grant or revoke access to resources for users, roles, and groups. The SAP Portal drivers contains three preconfigured entitlements. For more information, see Section 5.0, Implementing the Preconfigured Entitlements.
The SAP Portal driver can synchronize passwords from the Identity Vault into the SAP NetWeaver server. The password synchronization is one way. For more information, see the NetIQ Identity Manager Password Management Guide.
Account Tracking allows you to manage all of the identities each user account has in each system connected to the Identity Vault. Account Tracking is a feature included with the Identity Reporting Module. For more information, see the Administrator Guide to NetIQ Identity Reporting.
The SAP Portal driver can be configured to work with the Identity Manager Catalog Administrator that allows you to map business roles to IT roles. Catalog Administrator is included with Identity Manager. For more information, see Role and Resource Administration in the NetIQ Identity Manager - Administrator’s Guide to the Identity Applications.