Novell IDENTITY MANAGER 3.6.1, Installation Manual

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Technical Guidelines
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Technical Guidelines
The information that you gather in Designer allows you to make the technical decisions such as
installation location and configuration options, about each component of Identity Manager. For an
introduction to each component, see the
Identity Manager 3.6.1 Overview guide. Figure 3-1 is one
possible configuration of an Identity Manager solution.
Figure 3-1
Identity Manager Components
Identity Manager is very customizable. The following sections contain technical best practices
guidelines to help set up and configure the Identity Manager solution that works best for your
environment. Variables that affect how these guidelines apply to your environment include the type
of hardware you have for your servers, how your WAN is configured, and how many objects are
being synchronized.
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Section 3.1, “Management Tools Guidelines,” on page 28
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Section 3.2, “Metadirectory Server Guidelines,” on page 29
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Section 3.3, “eDirectory Guidelines,” on page 30
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Section 3.4, “User Application,” on page 34
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Section 3.5, “Auditing and Reporting Guidelines,” on page 35
Designer iManager
Metadirectory
Server with
eDirectory
iManager
Server
Administration
Workstation
User
Application
Server
Novell
Sentinel Server