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In a recent Identity Management project I found myself reading information from an HR system via JDBC, then needing to write it into the Identity Vault. From there it would disperse to other systems, one of which was GroupWise.

The HR system stored all information in a capitalised fashion. It's quite obviously undesirable for all entries in a GroupWise address book to be capitalised, so I needed to transform the data. Read on to see how the data transformation was done.

The eDirectory browser view in IDM Designer can be used to browse through the objects in any of the eDirectory trees running on any platform. The view provides the dialog to pass the treeName/IP address and user credentials to login to the remote eDirectory server. After a successful login the eDirectory objects are displayed in a hierarchical tree format. The tree can be browsed by expanding/collapsing the containers which fetches the objects from the remote server.

Here's a way to make this process faster.

nts-fuseds is a Framework to host and manage various NTS (UK Services) applications. It runs on Linux (i386) and Microsoft Windows platforms.

The ability to use Challenge/Response information for password reset information is one that Novell has offered for a long time. Setting default Challenge/Response values for a given user is not easily accomplished normally and can result in a new user getting prompted for data before they are familiar with business policies and the purpose of the prompts. Continue on to see how to set default, customized values for users using Novell Identity Manager (IDM) and some NMAS calls.

This article demonstrates a way to provision accounts to Identity Audit via IDM directly to ease administration of a large environment.

A script to make it easier to figure out which *.TAO file goes with which driver without having to look it up in your documentation or figure it out each time you need to know it.