24.1 Understanding the Roles Based Provisioning Module installation

This section provides a checklist to guide you through the installation process, as well as a description of the circumstances under which you might need to extend the schema for eDirectory.

24.1.1 Installation Checklist

 

Checklist Items

  1. Ensure that your servers meet the prerequisites for installing RBPM. For more information, see Section 6.7, Prerequisites and Requirements for Installing the User Application and Roles Based Provisioning Module.

  1. Ensure that your servers meet the hardware and software requirements for installing RBPM. For more information, see Section 6.7.6, System Requirements for Installing the User Application and Roles Based Provisioning Module.

  1. Ensure that eDirectory is running on the default LDAP ports 389 and 636 to avoid getting an error message about invalid schema. You can manually extend the eDirectory schema after installation. For more information, see Section 24.1.2, Understanding Schema Extension.

  1. Identify a user account with rights to administer the Identity Vault server. You must know the LDAP format for the account’s credentials.

  1. Determine whether you can install RBPM with the schema extension files or you must manually extend the eDirectory schema. For more information, see Section 24.1.2, Understanding Schema Extension.

  1. (Conditional) Manually extend the eDirectory schema. For more information, see Section 24.2, Extending the eDirectory Schema Using the Wizard and Section 24.3, Extending the Schema Manually without Using the Wizard.

  1. Install RBPM. For more information, see Section 24.4, Installing RBPM with the Schema Extension Files.

24.1.2 Understanding Schema Extension

The RBPM installation wizard automatically installs the schema extension files for eDirectory to interact with RBPM. However, in the following circumstances you must manually extend the schema rather than use the wizard to install the extension files: