36.1 Checklist for Installing Identity Reporting

NetIQ recommends that you complete the steps in the following checklist.

Checklist Items

  1. Learn about the interaction among Identity Manager components. For more information, see Section 3.3.4, Identity Reporting.

  1. Decide which servers you want to use for your Identity Manager components. For more information, see Section 5.3, Recommended Installation Scenarios and Server Setup.

  1. Review the considerations for installing Identity Reporting. For more information, see Section 36.3, Prerequisites for Installing the Identity Reporting Components.

  1. Review the hardware and software requirements for the computers that will host Identity Reporting. For more information, see Section 36.4, System Requirements for Identity Reporting.

  1. Ensure that you have installed the identity applications. For more information, see Section 28.0, Planning to Install the Identity Applications.

    NOTE:You might want to install EAS before installing the identity applications. For more information, see Section 5.3, Recommended Installation Scenarios and Server Setup.

  1. Install EAS:

    NOTE:You can install an alternative event auditing service, such as NetIQ Sentinel. However, this guide does not provide instructions for that type of installation.

  1. Ensure that the server where you want to install Identity Reporting has an application server, such as Tomcat. For more information, see Section 25.0, Installing PostgreSQL and Tomcat.

  1. (Conditional) To use the Apache Log4j service to record events in Tomcat, ensure that you have the appropriate files. For more information, see Section 26.6, Using the Apache Log4j Service to Log Sign-on and Password Events.

  1. Install Identity Reporting:

  1. Complete the Identity Reporting set up. For more information, see Section 39.0, Configuring Identity Reporting.

  1. (Conditional) Configure Identity Reporting in a WebSphere environment. For more information, see Section 39.1, Configuring Identity Reporting for WebSphere.

  1. Configure the Managed System Gateway and Data Collection Service drivers. For more information, see Section 40.1, Configuring Drivers for Identity Reporting.

  1. Deploy and start the drivers. For more information, see Section 40.2, Deploying and Starting Drivers for Identity Reporting.

  1. Back up the driver schema in the database. For more information, see Section 40.3, Backing Up the Schema for the Drivers.

  1. Configure the environment for the drivers. For more information, see Section 40.4, Configuring the Runtime Environment.

  1. Configure Identity Manager and eDirectory to send data to the drivers. For more information, see Section 40.5, Setting Auditing Flags for the Drivers.