5.0 Identity Manager Tools

Identity Manager provides tools that help you create and maintain your Identity Manager solution. Each of the tools has a specific function.

Figure 5-1 Identity Manager Tools

You use Designer to design, create, and configure your Identity Manager system in an off-line environment and then deploy your changes to your live system. Designer also provides you the package management capabilities for pre-configuring and customizing Identity Manager driver policies. Analyzer is used when you create your Identity Manager solution to analyze, clean, and prepare you data for synchronization.

The Role Mapping Administrator is used to create and manage roles throughout your Identity Manager solution.

You can use iManager to perform the similar tasks as Designer and also monitor the health of your system; however, package management is not supported in iManager. We recommend that you use iManager for administration tasks and Designer for configuration tasks that require changes to packages, modeling, and testing prior to deployment.

More information about each of these tools is provided in the following sections: