6.6 Prerequisites and Requirements for Installing the Remote Loader

This section provides the prerequisites and system requirements for installing the Remote Loader.

6.6.1 Prerequisites for Installing the Remote Loader

Before installing the Remote Loader, NetIQ recommends that you review the following considerations:

  • You must install the Remote Loader on a server that can communicate with the managed systems. The driver for each managed system must be available with the relevant APIs.

  • You can install the Remote Loader on the same computer where you installed the Identity Manager engine. If you have installed the engine as a 32-bit application on a 64-bit operating system, you can install both a 32-bit and a 64-bit Remote Loader on the same server.

  • You can install Java Remote Loader on platforms that do not support the native Remote Loader.

  • You can install .NET Remote Loader on .NET platform version 2.

  • (Conditional) To connect Identity Manager to Active Directory, you must install Remote Loader and the driver for Active Directory on a server that is a member server or a domain controller. You do not need to install eDirectory and Identity Manager on the same server as the connected system. The Remote Loader sends all of the events from Active Directory to the Identity Manager server. The Remote Loader then receives any information from the Identity Manager server and passes that to the connected application.

  • NetIQ recommends that you use the Remote Loader configuration with your drivers where possible. Use the Remote Loader even in cases where the connected system is on the same server as the Identity Manager server engine.

    When you run the driver with the Remote Loader configuration, the following solutions apply:

    • Protects eDirectoryfrom any exceptions encountered by the driver shim.

    • Offloads driver commands to the remote application or database, which improve performance of the server that hosts the Identity Manager engine.

    • Allows you to run additional drivers on servers that do not host the Identity Manager engine.

  • The following drivers support the Remote Loader capability:

    • Active Directory

    • Avaya PBX

    • Banner

    • Blackboard

    • Delimited Text

    • Google Apps

    • GroupWise (for 32-bit Remote Loader)

    • JDBC

    • JMS

    • LDAP

    • Linux/UNIX Settings

    • Lotus Notes

    • Managed System Gateway

    • Manual Task Services

    • PeopleSoft 5.2

    • Remedy ARS

    • RACF

    • RSA SecureID

    • SalesForce.com

    • SAP Business Logic

    • SAP GRC (CMP only)

    • SAP HR

    • SAP Portal

    • SAP User Management

    • Sentinel

    • Integration Module V2.0 for Sentinel

    • Scripting

    • SharePoint

    • SOAP

    • Top Secret

    • WorkOrder

For more information about the Identity Manager Remote Loader, see this article.

6.6.2 System Requirements for Installing the Remote Loader

This section provides requirements to help you set up the server hosting the Remote Loader.

Category

Requirement

Processor

Pentium* III 600MHz, at a minimum

Memory

256 MB

Operating System

One of the following operating systems, at a minimum:

  • Open Enterprise Server 2015 (64-bit)

  • Open Enterprise Server 11 SP1 (32-bit and 64-bit)

  • Open Enterprise Server 2 SP3 (32-bit and 64-bit)

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6.2 (32-bit or 64-bit)

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5.7 (32-bit or 64-bit)

  • Oracle Solaris 10 (64-bit)

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 (32-bit or 64-bit)

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 (32-bit or 64-bit)

  • Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1

  • Windows Server 2008 SP2 (32-bit and 64-bit)

  • Windows Server 2003 SP2 (32-bit and 64-bit)

Virtualization Systems

One of the following systems running a supported operating system unless otherwise noted:

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Virtualization (64-bit)

  • Windows Sever 2008 R2 Virtualization with Hyper-V (32-bit or 64-bit)

  • Xen Virtual Machine running SLES 10 or SLES 11 as a guest operating system in para-virtualized mode