5.3 Event Auditing Service

The Event Auditing Service is a feature Identity Manager provides that allows you to audit your Identity Manager components. However, the Event Auditing Service can be installed only on Linux computers. The Event Auditing Service is required to be installed and running before configuring the identity applications and the Identity Reporting features. Otherwise, the configuration of the identity applications and the Identity Reporting features fails.

Administrator password

Specify the password for the Event Auditing Service utilities administrator. The installation process creates this account.

NOTE:On a SUSE Linux (SLES) server, the password must meet the systems password policy for SLES.

dbauser password

Specifies the password for the admin account that can modify the Identity Information Warehouse (database on the EAS server). The installation process creates this account.

NOTE:On a SUSE Linux (SLES) server, the password must meet the systems password policy for SLES.

Advanced Settings

All of the remaining settings are under Advanced Settings. If you do not make any changes to the Advanced Settings, the configuration program uses the default settings listed.

PostgreSQL port

Specify the port through which the PostgreSQL database communicates. The default port is 15432.

Enable port forwarding

Select whether you want to support port forwarding packets with the Event Auditing Service. By default, this option is enabled.