12.1 Checklist for Installing Identity Reporting

NetIQ recommends that you complete the steps in the following checklist:

Checklist Items

  1. Review the planning information. For more information, see Section I, Planning to Install Identity Manager.

  1. Review the hardware and software requirements for the computers that will host the Identity Reporting. For more information, see the following sections:

  1. Ensure that you have installed the identity applications if you are installing Advanced Edition. For more information, see Planning to Install the Identity Applications.

    You do not need Identity Applications for Standard Edition.

  1. To audit events, install Sentinel on a Linux server. For more information, see the Installing Sentinel Log Management for Identity Governance and Administration in the NetIQ Identity Manager Setup Guide for Linux.

  1. Ensure that the server where you want to install Identity Reporting has an application server, such as Tomcat. For more information, see Installing PostgreSQL and Tomcat.

  1. (Conditional) To use the Apache Log4j service to record events in Tomcat, ensure that you have the appropriate files. For more information, see Using the Apache Log4j Service to Log Sign-on.

  1. Install Identity Reporting:

  1. Complete the Identity Reporting set up. For more information, see Section 14.0, Configuring Identity Reporting.

  1. Configure the Managed System Gateway and Data Collection Services drivers. For more information, see Configuring Drivers for Identity Reporting.

  1. Deploy and start the drivers. For more information, see Deploying and Starting Drivers for Identity Reporting.

  1. Configure the environment for the drivers. For more information, see Configuring the Runtime Environment.

  1. Configure Identity Manager and Identity Vault to send data to the drivers. For more information, see Setting Auditing Flags for the Drivers.