Identity Manager 8.1.4 - Installation Guide

The Launchpad is the central tool for starting One Identity Manager administration tools and configuration tools. You can use the Launchpad to check the existing One Identity Manager installation and start One Identity Manager tools to execute individual tasks.

The Launchpad can be customized. In the Designer, you can define your own menu items and actions for the Launchpad.

The Web Portal is a web-based application for all One Identity Manager users. The Web Portal provides stringent workflows in the following areas:

• Changing employee master data and own password.
• Editing or entering employee master data for subordinate staff.
• Searching, requesting, canceling, or renewing products in the IT Shop.
• Delegating own roles.
• Editing assigned approvals, attestation cases, and rule violations.

In the information system, you may see several evaluations, for example, about your own requests and attestation cases, employee numbers, approvals, rule violations, or the Unified Namespace.

The Web Portal requires a web server. Through a web browser, users can access the website that has been dynamically set up and customized for them. Once the web server has been configured and a web project in has been published in the Web Designer, you can start the Web Portal in your own web browser.

The Password Reset Portal allows users to securely reset passwords of the user accounts they manage.

To utilize the Password Reset Portal, it must be installed as a dedicated web application. The necessary security is guaranteed by multi-factor authentication.

The Operations Support Web Portal was created with help desk staff in mind, who need support when executing tasks and process steps. You can use the Operations Support Web Portal to monitor the handling of processes and DBQueue tasks. You can also create access codes for your colleagues.

Before you can use the Operations Support Web Portal, you must install an API Server.

The Manager is the main administration tool for setting up information about employees and their identities. It displays and maintains all the data required for the administration of employees, their user accounts, permissions, and company-specific roles in a One Identity Manager network. Company resources employees require can be entered and assigned to them.

You can also use the Manager to:

• Define custom IT policies.
• Set up an IT Shop from which company resources and assignments can be requested.
• Set up special approval processes for authorizing requests and checking compliance to IT policy.
• Set up attestation procedures for regularly testing the correctness of data about employees or roles and their assignments.

By implementing One Identity Manager application roles, every One Identity Manager user obtains only those access permissions they require to fulfill necessary administrative duties.

Manager functionality can be provided by web applications.

You use the Synchronization Editor to connect different target systems to One Identity Manager. Use this tool to configure data synchronization for any target system and specify which target system data is mapped to the One Identity Manager database. You also define the object properties mapping and the synchronization sequence as a workflow.

Use the Analyzer to automatically detect and analyze data correlations in the database. This information can be used to replace, for example, direct permissions assignments with indirect assignments, therefore reducing the administration effort.

The Job Queue Info helps you check the current status of the services running in a One Identity Manager network. It displays, in a detailed and comprehensive manner, the tasks in the Job queue and the different One Identity Manager Service requests on the servers. The tool provides on-the-fly status information and makes fast error detection possible.

The Configuration Wizard is used to set up the database on a SQL Server for use in a One Identity Manager network. All the One Identity Manager schema tables, data types, and database procedures are loaded into the database with the Configuration Wizard. SQL Server logins and database users are created with permissions for the One Identity Manager schema.

Automatic version control is integrated into One Identity Manager, ensuring that One Identity Manager components are always consistent with each other and with the database. If program updates are implemented that change the structure (for example, table extensions), database migration is then necessary. The Configuration Wizard executes this schema installation depending on the current status of the schema.

The Designer is the main tool for configuring One Identity Manager. The program offers an overview of the entire One Identity Manager data model. It enables the configuration of global system settings, for example, language, or configuration parameters, as well as customizing the user interface for the various administration tools. You also use the Designer to set up the permissions structure for different administrative tasks of individual users and user groups. Another important task is the definition of workflows for technically illustrating the administration procedures in a company. The Designer provides various editors for the One Identity Manager system configuration. The range of functions and the operating methods of the editors are tailored to the differing configuration requirements.

Use the Web Designer to configure and extend the Web Portal. It includes functions for adapting Web Portal workflows and developing new workflows.

With the Data Import program, One Identity Manager offers a simple way to import data from other systems. Use this program if you want to import company resource data from external sources into your database. The program supports importing from files and importing directly from other database systems. You can import data immediately. You also have the option to import data from customized processes using the import scripts that are created. The import definition is saved so that you can use it for future data imports.

In certain circumstances it is necessary store encrypted information in the database. Use the Crypto Configuration program to carry out encryption. This program creates a code file and converts the contents of the affected database column. The coded information is stored in the database.

You must compile the One Identity Manager database after making changes to configuration data. After a migration package or full custom configuration package is imported, database compiling begins immediately from the Configuration Wizard or Database Transporter.

The Database Compiler compiles the One Identity Manager database after you import hotfixes or when changes have been made to processes, scripts, formatting rules, object definitions, task definitions, or preprocessor-relevant configuration parameters.

With the Report Editor, you can group One Identity Manager object data together into reports. You can group, accumulate, and graphically represent this data. Predefined reports are supplied though migration but you can also create your own reports with the Report Editor.

Use the Schema Extension to extend the existing application data model of the One Identity Manager database with customized tables and columns. Using the object technology in One Identity Manager, you can customize the application data model at database level so that the extensions are available with full functionality at object level.

The System Debugger allows you to process and test scripts. Existing scripts in your One Identity Manager database are imported into a Visual Studio script library. There, you can edit and test the scripts. Subsequently, you decide whether your changes should be transferred to the One Identity Manager database.

The Database Transporter transfers objects and custom changes as well as custom database procedures, triggers, functions, and sets from the One Identity Manager database (source) to another One Identity Manager database (target).

One Identity Manager historical data is transferred at regular intervals into a One Identity Manager History Database thus, the One Identity Manager History Database provides an archive of change information. The HistoryDB Manager tool displays the data in the One Identity Manager History Database. Use the HistoryDB Manager to set up access to the source databases.

Use the Job Service Configuration to create and customize the configuration file for the One Identity Manager Service. The One Identity Manager Service and its plugins are configured with this file. The configuration file is necessary both for One Identity Manager Service on a Windows based operating system and also for the Linux daemon.

Using the License Meter, you can track and maintain the licenses in your One Identity Manager database. The wizard creates a report with license-relevant information.

Use the Software Loader to load new or modified files, for example custom form archives, in the One Identity Manager database in order to distribute them to One Identity Manager network workstations and Job servers using automatic software updating.

Use the Server Installer to install and configure the One Identity Manager Service. The program executes remote installation of the One Identity Manager Service. Local installation of the service is not possible with this program.

The API Designer allows you to create, record, compile, and publish a Representational State Transfer Application Programming Interface (REST-API) in the quickest way possible. This API is based on the OpenAPI Specification and the One Identity Manager database model. To use the API, you must install an API Server.