The Fan-Out Driver differs from other Identity Manager drivers in the following ways:
Fan-Out Scalability A single instance of the Fan-Out Driver can provision centrally managed account information to hundreds of dissimilar platform systems throughout your enterprise.
Scripts Fan-Out Driver scripts process data change events on all supported platforms. This enables platform system administrators to automatically manage local resources associated with accounts as well as the definitions of those accounts.
Authentication Redirection It supports the NetIQ Universal Password feature, which employs access to a central repository for login and password rules. This includes support of bidirectional password synchronization.
Application Programming Interface (API) An easy-to-use API enables programmers to extend applications from individual platforms to fully leverage eDirectory.