1.4 Design and Configuration Tools

The various administrators can use the following tools to design and configure the Identity Manager User Application.

Table 1-5 Tools for Designing and Configuring the User Application

Tool

Purpose

Designer for Identity Manager

A powerful, graphical toolset for configuring and deploying Identity Manager. The following plug-ins are designed to help you configure the User Application:

  • Directory Abstraction Layer editor: Lets you define the Identity Vault objects needed for your User Application.

  • Provisioning Request Definition editor: Lets you create workflows for provisioning request definitions. Also allows you to customize the forms by which users make and approve requests and e-mail templates.

  • Provisioning view: Lets you import, export, deploy, and migrate directory abstraction layer and provisioning requests to the User Application driver.

  • Role editor: Lets you create and configure roles for use within the User Application.

  • Resource editor: Lets you create and configure resources for use within the User Application.

For more information, see the Identity Manager User Application: Design Guide.

iManager

A Web-based administration console. The following plug-ins are designed to help you configure and administer the User Application:

  • Provisioning Request Configuration plug-in: Gives you a read-only view of provisioning request definitions created through Designer and allows you to mark them active or inactive.

  • Workflow Administration plug-in: Provides a browser-based interface that lets you view the status of workflow processes, reassign activities within a workflow, or terminate a workflow in the event that it is stopped and cannot be restarted.

  • Provisioning Team plug-in: Not supported with this release of the Roles Based Provisioning Module. The Team Configuration user interface on the Administration of the User Application replaces this iManager tool.

  • Provisioning Team Request plug-in: Not supported with this release of the Roles Based Provisioning Module. The Team Configuration user interface on the Administration of the User Application replaces this iManager tool.

For more information, see Section V, Configuring and Managing Provisioning Workflows

User Application Administration tab

A Web-based administration console that allows you to configure, manage, and customize the User Application. It contains the following pages:

  • Application Configuration: Lets you configure caching, LDAP parameters, logging, themes, password module setup

  • Page Administration: Lets you create new portlets or customize existing Identity Self-Service pages

  • Portlet Administration: Lets you create new or customize the existing portlets used on the Identity Self-Service pages.

  • RBPM Provisioning and Security: Lets you define administrator assignments, configure teams, and specify navigation access permissions. In addition, it allows you to configure delegation, proxy, tasks, digital signature service, and engine and cluster settings.

For more information, see Section III, Administering the User Application.

lreport.exe (log report tool) and iManager Auditing and Logging feature

A number of predefined log reports (that come with Identity Manager) are available in Crystal Reports* (.rpt) format for filtering data logged to the Novell Audit database. The lreport.exe log report tool (Windows* only) is one way to generate the reports. You can also use other methods to create the reports. See Section 3.0, Setting Up Logging for details.