NetIQ Identity Console 1.7 Release Notes

June 2023

NetIQ Identity Console 1.7 added various new features and resolved several previous issues. Many of these improvements were made in direct response to suggestions from our customers. We thank you for your time and valuable input. We hope you continue to help us ensure our products meet all your needs.

For more information and for the latest release notes, see the Identity Console Documentation Web site. To download this product, see the NetIQ Downloads Web site.

This release notes have the following sections:

1.0 What’s New

Identity Console 1.7 provides the following updates in this release:

1.1 Operating System Support

Identity Console 1.7 adds support to the latest operating systems:

For the standalone:

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.7 and 9.1.

For the Docker:

  • openSUSE 15.4.

1.2 Supported Browsers

Identity Console 1.7 supports the latest version of the following browsers:

  • Google Chrome.

  • Mozilla Firefox.

  • Microsoft Edge.

1.3 New Features

This release of the Identity Console comes with the following new features:

Custom Forms

Custom Forms feature simplifies and reduces the time to create multiple objects. Use the Custom Forms feature to dynamically create tasks for your most frequently used operations. Several Tasks can be performed on a single screen without navigating to multiple screens. For more information see: Managing Custom Forms.

Home Screen Custom Branding

Identity Console has simplified the procedure to customize the UI. The header, the company’s name, the colors, and the logo can be customized directly from the home screen. For more information see: Customize the Home Screen.

Updates for Dependent Components

This release supports the following third-party components:

  • openSSL - 1.0.2 zg.

  • openSUSE Leap 15.4.

  • CJSON - 1.7.15.

  • Angular Framework 15.

  • Golang 1.20.3.

  • NICI 3.2.0.0500.

1.4 Software Fixes

Identity Console 1.7 includes the following software fixes:

Contextless-login: Passwords Management

The Contextless-login script is enhanced to store the passwords that have special characters. (Defect: 640064).

Roles and Access Control Permissions

To manage permissions as expected, the Modify User, Set Password, and the User Management features in RAC are improved. (Defect: 637083).

Migrate from Identity Vault

Identity Console is enhanced to handle the association values that contain a hash symbol (#). Now, the Identity Console resynchronization does not break existing associations. (Defect: 734021).

Identity Console Certificate Files Allow Access to NDS Users

Enhanced the permissions on the keys.pfx and the SSCert.pem. The certificates copied into the Identity Console configuration are now owned by the NDS user. (Defect: 533005).

DN Management Shows the Required Results when Searched for Users in Context Browser

Identity Console returns with the appropriate objects. Searching the user objects in the context browser is working as expected under DN Management > Rename Object. (Defect: 658029).

1.5 System Requirements

For information about prerequisites, computer requirements, installation, upgrade, or migration, see Planning to Install Identity Console in the Deploying Identity Console.

2.0 Installing or Upgrading

Log in to the Software License and Download page and follow the instructions provided on the page to download the software. NetIQ provides a tar.gz or .zip file to install Identity Console.

Table 1 For example:

For Docker:

IdentityConsole_170_Containers.tar.gz

For Standalone Installation:

IdentityConsole_170_Linux.tar.gz

For Windows workstation:

IdentityConsole_170_workstation_win_x86_64.zip

2.1 Installation

The installation process of the Identity Console varies depending on the destination platform. Please select the appropriate section:

Deploying Identity Console as Docker Container

For more information on installing Identity Console, see Deploying Identity Console As a Docker Container section in the Identity Console Installation Guide.

Deploying Standalone Identity Console (Non-Docker)

For more information on installing Identity Console, see Deploying Standalone Identity Console (Non-Docker) section in the Identity Console Installation Guide.

Deploying Identity Console on Windows as a Workstation

For more information on installing Identity Console, see Identity Console on Windows as Workstation section in the Identity Console Installation Guide.

3.0 Supported Upgrade Paths

For more information on upgrading to Identity Console 1.7, see Identity Console Installation Guide.

4.0 Known Issues

NetIQ Corporation strives to ensure our products provide quality solutions for your enterprise software needs. The following issues are currently being researched. If you need further assistance with any issue, please contact Technical Support.

4.1 Identity Console: Current Audit Configuration

Issue: Identity Console fails to retrieve the current audit configuration for a driver or driverset when it is set to ‘Specific events’. (Defect: 688019).

Workaround: The data can be read from any LDAP client.

5.0 Legal Notice

For information about legal notices, trademarks, disclaimers, warranties, export, and other use restrictions, U.S. Government rights, patent policy, and FIPS compliance, see https://www.netiq.com/company/legal.

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