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, Identity Vault, and SAP NetWeaver server. Both systems that the driver needs to communicate with (Metadirectory engine and SAP NetWeaver server) are local to the driver.
The SAP Portal driver can be installed on the same operating systems supported by the Metadirectory server. For information, see Metadirectory Server
in System Requirements
in the Identity Manager 3.6.1 Installation Guide.
If you don’t want to install the Metadirectory engine and Identity Vault (eDirectory™) on the SAP NetWeaver server, you can use the Remote Loader service to run the driver on the SAP NetWeaver server, and have the Metadirectory engine and Identity Vault on another server.
The SAP Portal driver can be installed on the same operating systems supported by the Remote Loader. For information, see Remote Loader
in System Requirements
in the Identity Manager 3.6.1 Installation Guide.
Entitlements are a way to set up a list of criteria to grant or revoke users, roles, and groups access to resources. The SAP Portal drivers contains three preconfigured entitlements. For more information, see Section 4.0, 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 Identity Manager 3.6.1 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 Novell® Compliance Management Platform. For more information, see the Novell Compliance Management Platform Web site.
The SAP Portal driver can be configured to work with the Identity Manager Role Mapping Administrator, which is a tool that allows you to map business roles to IT roles. The Role Mapping Administrator is included with the Novell Compliance Management Platform extension for SAP environments. For more information, see the Novell Compliance Management Platform extension for SAP environments Web site.