1.11 Designer for Identity Manager

When using Designer for Identity Manager, consider the following issues:

  • Monitor and control who has rights to create or modify an Identity Manager driver.

    Administrative rights are needed to create Identity Manager objects and configure drivers.

  • Before giving a consultant an Identity Vault administrator password, limit the rights assigned to that administrator to areas of the tree that the consultant must access.

  • Delete the project files (.proj) or save them to a company directory.

    Designer .proj files are to remain at the company’s project site. A consultant does not take the files after completing a project.

  • After project files, log files, and trace files are no longer needed, delete them.

  • Before discarding or surplusing a laptop, verify that project files have been cleaned.

  • Ensure that the connection from Designer to the Identity Vault server is physically secure. Otherwise, someone could monitor the wire and pull sensitive information.

  • When you use Document Generator to create documents, be careful with those documents. These documents can contain passwords and sensitive data in clear text.

  • If Designer needs to read or write to an eDirectory attribute, do not mark that attribute as encrypted. Designer is unable to read or write to encrypted attributes.

  • Do not store passwords that are sensitive.

    Currently, Designer projects are not encrypted. Passwords are only encoded. Therefore, do not share Designer projects that have saved passwords.

    To save a password for a session, but not save it to the project:

    1. In an expanded Outline view, right-click an Identity Vault.

    2. Select Properties.

    3. On the Configuration page, type a password, then click OK.

      You can enter a password once per session. After you close the project, the password is lost.

    To save a password to the hard drive, complete Steps 1-3, select Save Password, then click OK.

    Figure 1-1 Save Password