3.0 Installing the Driver Files

The PAM driver is a Java-based driver and can be run on the Identity Manager engine or on a Remote Loader server.

For installation of the Identity Manager engine and the Remote Loader (required to run the driver on a non-Identity Manager engine), see “Installing Identity Manager” in the Identity Manager Integrated Installation Guide.

When you install IDM 4.5, the following PAM driver files also get installed:

Files

Description

PUM.sch

PAM schema file. It gets extended with IDM schema.

NPUM_api.jar

NPUMDriverShim.jar

Driver files

samples

Sample files for sample solutions described in Section C.0, Use Cases

The default location of the sample files is as following:

  • For Windows: C:\NetIQ\IdentityManager\NDS\lib\dirxml\rules\npum\samples

  • For Linux: /opt/novell/eDirectory/lib/dirxml/rules/npum/samples

For IDM 4.0.2, the installation of the files are done manually whereas, for IDM 4.5 the files get installed automatically.