1.3 System Requirements

To use the Novell Identity Manager Roles Based Provisioning Module 3.7.0, you must have one of each of the required components listed in Table 1-1.

Table 1-1 System Requirements

Required System Component

System Requirements

Identity Manager 3.6 and eDirectory

For the list of supported operating systems, see the Identity Manager and eDirectory documentation.

Identity Manager 3.6.1 and eDirectory

For the list of supported operating systems, see the Identity Manager and eDirectory documentation.

Web-based Administration Server

  • iManager 2.7 SP2 and plug-ins

For the list of supported operating systems, see the iManager documentation.

The following plug-ins are required:

  • Identity Manager 3.6.1b Plug-in for iManager 2.7

  • Password Management 3.6.1b Plug-in for iManager 2.7

Audit Service

  • Sentinel™ 6.1

  • Novell Identity Audit 1.0

For the list of supported operating systems, see the Sentinel or Novell Identity Audit documentation.

User Application Application Server

The User Application runs on JBoss*, WebSphere*, and WebLogic* as described below.

The User Application with JBoss 5.0.1 requires JRE* 1.6.0-14 from Sun and is supported on:

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

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

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

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

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

  • Red Hat Linux 5 (32-bit and 64-bit)

  • Solaris 10 (32-bit and 64-bit)

IMPORTANT:JRE 1.6.0 update 06 was shipped with Identity Manager 3.6.1. For updating your JRE, you must note that JRE 1.6 versions up to update 23 ship with the CVE-2010-4476 security vulnerability. This security vulnerability has been addressed in JRE 1.6.0-24 version. You must use the FPUpdater tool that Sun has recently released to update your current rt.jar files to JRE 1.6.0-24 version. The instructions for installing the latest JRE versions are available at the JRE Patch Download Site.

The User Application on WebSphere 6.1 requires the IBM J9 VM (build 2.3, J2RE 1.5.0). It is supported on these platforms:

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

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

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

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

  • Red Hat Linux 5 (32-bit and 64-bit)

  • AIX 5.3 (64-bit) (only supported with Oracle 10g as the database)

  • Solaris 10 (32-bit and 64-bit)

The User Application on WebSphere 7.0 requires the IBM J9 VM (build 2.4, J2RE 1.6.0). It is supported on these platforms:

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

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

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

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

  • Red Hat Linux 5 (32-bit and 64-bit)

  • Solaris 10 (32-bit and 64-bit)

The User Application on WebLogic 10.3 requires JRockit* JVM 1.6.0_05 and is supported on these platforms.

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

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

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

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

  • Red Hat Linux 5 (32-bit and 64-bit)

  • Solaris 10 (32-bit or 64-bit)

NOTE:The User Application supports Xen and VMWare virtualization as long as the guest operating system is one that is supported by the User Application.

User Application Browser

The User Application supports both Firefox* and Internet Explorer*, as described below.

FireFox* 3 is supported on:

  • Windows XP with SP3

  • Windows Vista

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11

  • Novell OpenSuSE 10

  • Novell OpenSuSE 11

  • Apple Mac

Firefox* 2 (Version 2.0.0.20 only) is supported on:

  • Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10

  • Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10

  • Novell OpenSuSE 10

Internet Explorer 8 is supported on:

  • Windows XP with SP3

  • Windows Vista

Internet Explorer 7 is supported on:

  • Windows XP SP3

Database Server for the User Application

The following databases are supported with JBoss:

  • MS SQL 2005

  • MySQL Version 5.1

  • Oracle 10g

  • Oracle 11g

  • PostgreSQL 8.3.8

The following databases are supported with WebSphere 6.1:

  • DB2 9.5

  • MS SQL 2005

  • Oracle 10g

  • Oracle 11g

The following databases are supported with WebSphere 7.0:

  • DB2 9.5

  • MS SQL 2005

  • Oracle 10g

  • Oracle 11g

The following databases are supported with WebLogic 10.3:

  • MS SQL 2005

  • Oracle 10g

  • Oracle 11g

The following JDBC drivers are supported:

MS SQL Server: sqljdbc_1.0 (sqljdbc.jar), sqljdbc_1.1 (sqljdbc.jar), sqljdbc_1.2 (sqljdbc.jar), sqljdbc_2.0 (sqljdbc.jar and sqljdbc4.jar)

Oracle10g or Oracle11g with WebLogic: ojdbc6.jar (Built in with WebLogic)

Oracle thin driver: Oracle JDBC Driver Version 10.2.0.1.0 or Version 11.1.0.7.0

Oracle OCI driver: Oracle JDBC Driver Version 10.2.0.2.0 or Version 11.1.0.7.0

MySQL: mysql-connector-java.jar v. 5.1.7

IBM DB2 9.5: DB2 JDBC Universal Driver Architecture 3.52.95

PostgreSQL: PostgreSQL8.1JBDC3

Designer

Designer 3.5

OpenXDAS

OpenXDAS version 0.8.345

The following OpenXDAS versions are needed for SLES10:

  • openxdas-0.8.351-1.1.i586.rpm

  • openxdas-0.8.351-1.1.x86_64.rpm

User Application SSO integration

Novell Access Manager 3.1.1 or 3.1.1 IR1

Novell Secure Login 6.1

Domain Services

OES 2 SP1 Domain Services for Windows

Password Management Challenge Response

NMAS Challenge Response Login Method Version: 2770 Build: 20080603 or higher is needed for Password Management Challenge Response functionality.