Simplified, Robust and Speedy Novell Identity Manager Implementation with Designer, Analyzer and iManager

1. Simplified, Robust and Speedy Novell Identity Manager ® Implementation with IDM Tools Designer, Analyzer, and iManager Yogesh Rao Vivek Thakyal Product Manager Senior Software Engineer ynaras@novell.com tvivek@novell.com

2. Agenda • Introduction • Analyzer Background • Analyzer New Features • Designer Background • Designer 3.5 New Features • Designer Upcoming Features • iManager Background • iManager New Features • Question and Answer 2 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

3. Introduction

4. Novell Identity Manager Solution ® Development Process – Interview System Owners – Write Business Rules – Analyze and Scrub Data – Model the Applications – Deploy to Test setup – Write Policies – Test Policies – Deploy to Production – Document the Project – Administration 4 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

5. Novell Identity Manager Solution ® Focus Areas for Designer, Analyzer, and iManager – Interview System Owners – Write Business Rules Analyzer – Analyze and Scrub Data – Model the Applications – Deploy to Test setup – Write Policies Designer – Test Policies – Deploy to Production – Document the Project – Administration iManager 5 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

6. Analyzer Introduction

10. Analyzer New Features

12. Script Metrics • More flexible and powerful than Regular Expressions • Write scripts in ECMAScript, Ruby, and Python • Write metrics spanning across multiple attributes • Use the same script to clean data 12 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

15. SSL Connection to MySQL Database • Analyzer can now connect to an external MySQL database using SSL • Analyzer uses the database as a repository for all imported data. 15 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

16. Designer Introduction

18. Designer Introduction • Eclipse based desktop application • Offline design and modeling capabilities • Policy creation, management, and simulation • Rich editors with undo/redo and global cut, copy, paste • Powerful Test, Debug and Deploy capabilities • Extensive support for User Application objects • Support for creating Provisioning work-flows • Support for Version Control 18 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

19. Designer Introduction A powerful visual toolkit for designing the identity environment. • Graphically configure complex systems • Model “What if” scenarios • Automatically generate documentation • Leverage re-usable configurations to reduce deployment time 19 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

21. Designer 3.5 New Features

22. New Features in Designer 3.5 • Basic Support for Staging • Designer as an RCP application • Performance Improvements • Role Based Entitlements • Schema Compare • Support for Novell Identity Manager 3.6.1 ® • Support for Role Based Provisioning Module 3.7 22 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

23. Support for Staging • Staging helps you to move projects from the design stage to the test environment and then the production environment • Basic support for moving Novell Identity Manager ® projects from one stage to another • Store additional objects in LDIF format – Even objects not modeled in Designer can be stored – Import additional objects from an Identity Vault or an LDIF file – Export additional objects to an Identity Vault or an LDIF file 23 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

24. Support for Staging Deploy Security Equivalences from LDIF file – Security Equivalence objects present in the LDIF container can be deployed and associated with drivers 24 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

25. Designer as an RCP Application Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) What does it mean to the Designer product? • A better way of building Eclipse based applications – Greater control over User Interface and Branding – Greater control over plug-ins to be included in the product • Choose what plug-ins should be included versus include everything, then remove what you don't need 25 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

26. Designer as an RCP Application What are the benefits? • Improved and simplified User Interface • Logically grouped menus items • Removal of unnecessary menus, views, and perspectives 26 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

27. Designer as an RCP Application What are the benefits? • Extracted size is 617 MB vs 805 MB • Start up is significantly faster • Performance improvements across many actions • Leaner installer and faster installation 27 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

28. Performance Improvements Improved eDirectory Browse performance over VPN ™ Re-Authentication Browse 100 leaf objects Designer 3.5 Designer 3.5.1 Browse 100 containers 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 Minutes Network Connection : VPN, Max Speed: 256 Kbps Results may vary depending on the connection speed and system configuration of the system used 28 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

29. Performance Improvements Improved eDirectory Browse performance over VPN ™ Manage eDirectory ID Vault > Deploy Context Designer 3.5 Designer 3.5.1 Browse - Import Dialog 0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 Minutes Network Connection : VPN, Max Speed: 256 Kbps Results may vary depending on the connection speed and system configuration of the system used 29 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

30. Performance Improvements • Improved deploy performance for Provisioning objects • Better performance while deploying large number of objects • On a particular test setup where deploy for 800 roles used to fail, we were able to deploy 1800 roles after the performance improvement code changes 30 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

32. Role-Based Entitlements • You can associate entitlements with policies • Users matching the criteria defined in the policies will be granted the entitlements associated with that policy 32 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

34. Schema Compare • Compare the Identity Vault schema in Designer with the schema in your production environment • View and reconcile the differences in schema • Resolve conflicts on individual classes and attributes 34 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

37. Support for Novell Identity Manager 3.6.1 ® Structured Configuration Values to support SAP driver fan-out • A new type of Configuration Values in Designer • A great way to group repeating sets of Configuration Values • Create a template with the repeating set of values and then create instances of that template with the click of a button 37 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

38. Support for Roles Based Provisioning Module 3.7 Support for Resources • New Resource editor is now available • Define categories, owners, and trustees • Define grant and revoke approval processes for a resource • New Resources Category list in the DAL editor 38 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

39. Support for Roles Based Provisioning Module 3.7 New Team Editor • Supports the new Team object class • Supports creating a team for a particular domain • Deprecated attributes removed from the Team editor 39 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

41. Designer Upcoming Features

44. Modeler Clutter Reduction • A new view has been added to the Domain Groups • Shows the connection for the selected driver only • Gives a preview of the applications within a Domain Group • Makes projects with large number of drivers manageable • Makes Domain Groups more usable • Cleaner looking Modeler diagrams 44 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

46. Performance Improvements Improved Import/Deploy performance over VPN Import 2 Entitlement, 3 JDBC Drivers Deploy 2 Entitlement, 3 JDBC Drivers Designer 3.5 Designer 4.0 Compare 2 Entitlement, 3 JDBC Drivers 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 Minutes Network Connection : VPN, Max Speed: 256 Kbps Results may vary depending on the connection speed and system configuration of the system used 46 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

47. Performance Improvements Improved Import/Deploy performance over VPN Import two AD Drivers Deploy two AD Drivers Designer 3.5 Designer 4.0 Compare 2 AD Drivers 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 Minutes Network Connection : VPN, Max Speed: 256 Kbps Results may vary depending on the connection speed and system configuration of the system used 47 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

48. iManager Introduction

50. iManager Introduction • A web-based administration tool • Provides a global view of the network from one browser-based tool • Helps manage Novell Open Enterprise Server, Novell ® Identity Manager, Novell eDirectory and other services ™ • A single point of administration for directory objects, schema, partitions, replicas and many other network resources. 50 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

51. iManager New Features

52. WAR File Deployment • iManager can now be installed on an existing tomcat installation • In order to remove installation dependencies on tomcat and Java runtime environment • Speed up distributing security vulnerability fixes 52 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

53. Future Directions • Dashboard view: A concept for making the plug-ins widgetized, displaying widgets on the dashboard – Spring & GWT into iManager • Multiple Tree administration 53 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

54. Question and Answer

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