This Novell Identity Manager 4: Administration training class covers the following topics:

• Introduction
• Course Objectives
• Course Audience
• Prerequisite Knowledge
• Identity Manager Training Path
• Relationship to Other Courses
• Delivery Method
• Classroom Agenda
• Your Student Kit
• Describe Novell Identity Manager 4.0

  Describe Novell Identity Manager

  • What Identity Manager Does
  • Solutions Provided by Identity Manager
  • Identity Manager Core Capabilities
  • Identity Manager High-Level Architecture

  Describe How Identity Manager Works

  • Data Synchronization
  • Metadirectory Engine Data Processing
  • Events and Data Synchronization
  • Events and Commands

  Describe the Identity Manager Engine

  • Embedded Identity Vault
  • Connected System (Application, Directory, or Database)
  • Metadirectory Engine
  • Identity Manager Driver
  • Application Driver Shim
  • Remote Loader

  What's New in Identity Manager 4.0

  • Comprehensive, Out-of-the-Box Reporting
  • Enhanced Integration
  • Package Management
  • Identity and Roles Made Easy
  • Remote Management
  • Embedded Identity Vault
  • Cloud-Ready Drivers
  • Enhanced Dashboard

  Administer Identity Manager

• Understand the Integrated Installer
• New Installation by Using Physical Media or an ISO
• Configuration
• Silent Installation and Configuration

• Use iManager to Administer Identity Manager

  • Accessing iManager
  • Administration Tools

  Understand Designer for Identity Manager

  Describe Designer for Identity Manager
  • How Designer Works with Identity Manager
  • Designer Features
  • Designer Target Audience
  • Designer and Eclipse Technology
  • Designer and iManager
  • Designer Requirements

  Use the Designer Interface

  • Get Help
  • Use the Modeler
  • Select a Modeling Mode
  • Connect Components and Applications
  • Save Your Design
  • Secure Designer

  Navigate Designer Workspaces, Perspectives, and Views

  • Specifying the Workspace
  • Project File Format
  • Managing Perspectives
  • Managing Views
  • The Project View
  • The Outline View
  • The Navigator View
  • Policy Set View
  • The Properties View
  • The Search Results View
  • The Tasks View
  • The Trace and Error Log Views
  • The Dataflow View
  • The Project Checker

  Perform Basic Identity Manager Tasks with Designer

  • Create or Redesign an Identity Manager Solution
  • Create a Project
  • Import Identity Manager Components Into a Project
  • Manage Filters
  • Manage Identity Manager Policies
  • View Schema Mapping Policies
  • Deploy and Export Projects
  • Generate Project Documents

  Implement Designer's Version Control Functionality

  • Installing a Subversion Server
  • Checking In a Project to a Version Control Server
  • Importing a Project from a Version Control Server
  • Accessing the Version Control View
  • Comparing Revisions and Resolving Conflicts
  • Version Control Best Practices

  Manage Content with Packages

  Manage Packages
  • Importing Packages into the Package Catalog
  • Installing Packages
  • Adding Packages
  • Uninstalling Packages
  • Upgrading Installed Packages
  • Downgrading Installed Packages
  • Deleting Packages from the Package Catalog
  • Customizing Package Content
  Identity Manager Drivers

  Implementing a New Driver - Active Directory

  • Preparing Active Directory
  • Installing the Driver Files
  • Creating a New Driver
  • Managing Active Directory Groups and Exchange Mailboxes
  Perform Driver Administration
  • Starting, Stopping, or Restarting the Driver
  • Activating the Driver
  Monitor Drivers
  • Viewing Version Information
  • Viewing Driver Statistics
  • Inspecting a Driver's Cache File
  Manage Drivers
  • Managing Associations between Drivers and Objects
  • Securely Storing Driver Passwords with Named Passwords
  • Configuring Java Environment Parameters
  • Reassociating a Driver Set Object with a Server
  • Migrating and Resynchronizing Data
  • Backing Up a Driver
  Determin When and How to Use Global Configuration Values
  • Using GCVs to Adapt the Driver Configuration File to Changing Environments
  • When Not to Use GCVs
  • When to Use Driver Set GCVs, Driver GCVs, or Global Configuration Objects in Packages
  • Naming Convention for GCVs
  Use Remote Loader
  • Installing the Remote Loader
  • Configuring the Remote Loader
  • Managing the Remote Loader
  Perform Identity Manager Jobs
  • Adding a Predefined Job
  • Configuring a Predefined Job's Properties
  • Creating a Custom Job
  • Starting a Job
  • Stopping a Job
  • Disabling a Job
  • Checking a Job's Status
  • Deleting a Job
  Monitor Driver Health
  • Creating a Driver Health Configuration
  • Creating a Driver Health Job
  • Modifying the Driver Health Job's Settings
  • Modifying the Conditions for a Health State
  • Modifying the Actions for a Health State
  • Creating a Custom State
  • Memory Requirements for Driver Health
  Manage Policies and Filters Describe and Manage Identity Manager Filters
  • What Filters Do
  • How to Manage Filters in iManager
  • Class and Attribute Options

  Describe Identity Manager Policies

  • What Policies Do
  • Policy Components
  • Policies and DirXML Script
  • Policy Types
  Track an XML Document Through the Channel
  • XML Overview and Definition
  • XML Trace
  • XML Examples
  Manage Identity Manager Policies
  • Open the Policy Builder
  • Create and Manage Policies
  • Create a Rule
  • Create Arguments Within a Rule
  • Manage Schema Mapping Policies
  Troubleshoot With DSTrace
  • Configure Trace
  • Apply Trace Reading Basics
  • Configuring IDM Trace
  • Capturing IDM Trace
  • Example - Tracing an Add Event
  • Detailed Trace Reading

  • Introduce the User Application

    • Describe the Identity Manager User Application
      • User Application Architecture
      • User Application User Types
      • Design and Configuration Tools
      • Accessing the Identity Manager User Application
    • Administer the User Application
      • Accessing the Administration Tab
      • Administration Tab Actions
      • User Application Portlets
      • Provisioning Workflow Components
    • Use Roles and Permissions to Implement User Application Security
      • The Security Model
      • Security Model Roles
      • Domains
      • Domain Administrators
      • Teams and Proxy
      • Navigation Access
    • Deploy User Application Proxy and Delegation
      • User Access to the Settings Menu
      • Acting as a Proxy
      • Viewing and Editing Your Proxy Assignments
      • Viewing and Editing Your Delegate Assignments
    • Administer Roles and Resources
      • Entitlements
      • Introducing Roles and Resources
      • Creating and Assigning Roles
      • Creating and Assigning Resources
      • Making Requests from the Work Dashboard
  • Implement Identity Manager Password Synchronization
    • Describe Password Synchronization
      • Identity Manager and Universal Password
      • Identity Manager and NMAS
      • What Is Bidirectional Password Synchronization?
      • Password Synchronization Features
      • How Password Synchronization Works
      • Connected System Support for Password Synchronization
    • Configure Password Synchronization
      • Password Synchronization Prerequisites
      • How to Prepare to Use Password Synchronization and Universal Password
      • How to Configure and Synchronize a New Driver
      • How to Configure a Password Filter for All Domain Controllers
    • Manage Passwords Using Password Policies
      • Overview of Password Policy Features
      • Creating Password Policies
      • Assigning Password Policies to Users
      • Finding Out Which Policy a User Has
    • Implement Password Synchronization
      • Scenario 1: Using NDS Password to Synchronize Between Two Identity Vaults
      • Scenario 2: Synchronizing by Using Universal Password
      • Scenario 3: Synchronizing an Identity Vault and Connected Systems, with Identity
      • Manager Updating the Distribution Password
    • Use Password Self-Service
      • Password Challenge Response
      • Password Hint Change
      • Change Password
      • Password Policy Status
      • Password Sync Status
  • Introduce the Reporting Module
    • Review the Identity Manager Reporting Architecture
    • Use Identity Reporting Module
    • Consider Reporting Module Security
      • Authentication Token Exposure
    • Access the Identity Reporting Module
      • Starting the Reporting Module Directly with a URL
      • Logging In
      • Launching the Reporting Module from the User Application
      • Configuring RBPM Access to the Reporting Module
    • Explore the Identity Reporting Module
      • Reporting Module Pages
      • Getting Help
      • Logging Out
      • Token Timeout

Before taking this course, you should have a basic understanding of directories and directory concepts.