1.4 Identity Manager Tools

Required for all installations

Identity Manager includes a set of management tools to facilitate the implementation, customization and maintenance of the solution. Some of these tools are installed with Identity Manager and some must be installed separately.

1.4.1 Designer for Identity Manager

Designer for Identity Manager (Designer) helps you design, test, document, and deploy Identity Manager solutions in a network or test environment. You can configure your Identity Manager project in an off-line environment, and then deploy to your live system. From a design perspective, Designer helps do the following:

  • Graphically view all of the components that comprise your Identity Manager solution and observe how they interact.

  • Modify and test your Identity Manager environment to ensure it performs as expected before you deploy part or all of your test solution to your production environment.

Designer keeps track of your design and layout information. With a click of a button, you can print that information in a format of your choice. Designer also enables teams to share work on enterprise-level projects.

Identity Manager provides a separate installation program for Designer.

1.4.2 Analyzer for Identity Manager

Analyzer for Identity Manager (Analyzer) provides data analysis, cleansing, reconciliation, and reporting to help you adhere to internal data quality policies. Analyzer lets you analyze, enhance, and control all data stores throughout the enterprise. Analyzer includes the following features:

  • Analyzer’s schema map associates an application’s schema attributes to the corresponding schema attributes in Analyzer’s base schema. This lets you ensure that your data analysis and cleaning operations properly associate similar values between the disparate systems. To accomplish this, Analyzer leverages the schema mapping features in Designer.

  • The Analysis Profile editor lets you configure a profile for analyzing one or more data set instances. Each analysis profile contains one or more metrics against which you can evaluate attribute values to see how the data conforms to your defined data format standards.

  • The Matching Profile editor lets you compare values in one or more data sets. You can check for duplicate values within a specified data set and check for matching values between two data sets.

Identity Manager provides a separate installation program for Analyzer.

After understanding the purpose of different Identity Manager components and the way they are installed, see Figure 1-3 to understand how the components interact with each other.

Figure 1-3 Interaction of Identity Manager Components