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IDM 3.5 Password Notification Service Driver
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All-in-one IDM 2.x/3.x service driver for password notifications that can
notify users, helpdesk and naudit on the following events:
- up to three times before passwords actually expire (notification
intervals and times are configurably) - after passwords expired, when grace logins fall below a
configurable limit - when accounts get locked and passwords have to be reset by an
administrator - on intruder lockout
All notifiction types and their targets (user, helpdesk and/or naudit)
can be individually enabled/disabled. The notification schedule operates
on an hourly or daily basis and is easily configured through GCVs.
Because IDM email templates are used, notifications can contain
additional account data e.g. the time an intruder-locked account will be
automatically unlocked again, or a company name for branding purposes.
Email templates are maintained in iManager or Designer, making it easy
to give them the same look and feel as the standard templates that come
with IDM password synchronization.
New 06-22-06: v1.1: This is a bugfixed and enhanced version. Now also
- decodes intruder addresses (IP only) and
- includes additional email templates and
- a readme.txt (finally!).
New 07-05-2007: v2.0 for IDM 3.5:
- trigger notifications from the subscriber channel (via policy or WorkOrder driver)
- notify managers on direct report's upcoming account expiration
- uses ldap search instead of XdsQueryProcessor: much more efficient, especially in large tree environments (thanks to a hint by Father Ramon)
New 08-07-2008: v2.0.3 for IDM 3.5:
- now supports (and defaults to) secure ldap operations
- notify managers/helpdesk about idle accounts (no login for xx days)
- changed some GCVs and added more detailed comments on how to use them
home page url: http://www.brummelhook.com/dirxml
download urls:
IDM2.0/3.0: http://www.brummelhook.com/download/pwnotify.zip
IDM3.5/3.6: http://www.brummelhook.com/download/pwnotify_idm35...
Links
Driver Wiki: http://wiki.novell.com/index.php/Password_Notifica...
Some tips by Geoffrey: http://www.novell.com/communities/node/3017
Changing time zone conversions: http://www.novell.com/communities/node/3083
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Comparing to IDM 3.6 Password Notification Job
Submitted by geoffc on 15 August 2008 - 7:35am.
IDM 3.6 includes a Password Notification Job that can be scheduled to run.
This is a different approach than Lothars, and has certain benefits.
Lothars approach is heavier load wise, you have to run a driver (Honestly, big deal... We run lots of drivers), whereas the Job runs as a Java application only on the schedule.
But in Lothars model we can manually change the code to do more, or less, or edit it. The Java class in the Job is more obscured.
No doubt there are use cases for both. But I think I will stick with Lothars for now! Well done!
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its all in german
Submitted by jbouley on 19 March 2009 - 9:53am.
I was very excited to find this tool and the web site was great until i downloaded it and took a look at the email templates.
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Well he is German...
Submitted by geoffc on 19 March 2009 - 2:31pm.
Lothar (the author) does live in Germany, though he does speak English quite well! (Better grammar than most people I meet!)
It took about 2 minutes for me to roughly translate the email template to basic English, sufficient to hand off to the Corporate Branding guys and say, here is how a Variable token is inserted, make this look like a company email. Let me know what variables you want provided.
You do not need to use his Email templates. I would have to check, but I am pretty sure the names of the templates are either GCV's, or really easy to find.
If you need any help, let me know it is really straightforward.
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Geoffrey's comment is spot
Submitted by lhaeger on 27 March 2009 - 5:56am.
Geoffrey's comment is spot on: as every company want's it's own cororate look and feel, all I could provide would be templates you'd have to edit anyway. Much work to do but not much to gain compared using to the German ones I already had.
Anyway, with so many instances of the driver running worldwide now, I am still hoping that someone is willing to share his/her localized templates e.g. by adding them to http://wiki.novell.com/index.php/Password_Notifica... (with a link to e.g. http://www.sourcepod.com) or sending me an email so I can add them to the download.
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