4.2 Identity Manager Components and System Requirements

Novell Identity Manager contains components that can be installed within your environment on multiple systems and platforms. Depending on your system configuration, you might need to run the Identity Manager installation program several times to install Identity Manager components on the appropriate systems.

The following table lists the four installation components of Identity Manager and requirements for each system.

System Component

System Requirements

Notes

Metadirectory Server

  • Metadirectory engine
  • Novell® Audit agent
  • Service drivers
  • Identity Manager Drivers

One of the following operating systems.

  • NetWare® 6.5 with the latest Support Pack
  • Novell Open Enterprise Server (OES) with the latest Support Pack
  • Windows* NT, 2000, or 2003 (32-bit) with the latest Service Pack (2003 64-bit is not supported)
  • Linux Red Hat* AS 3.0
  • SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 8 or 9
  • Solaris 8, 9, or 10
  • AIX 5.2L

One of the following versions of eDirectory.

  • eDirectory™ 8.7.3 with the latest Support Pack
  • eDirectory 8.8 with the latest Support Pack

OES, NetWare, Windows, and Linux platforms (Red Hat and SUSE) support all of the following processors:

  • Intel x86 32-bit
  • AMD x86 32-bit
  • Intel EM64T 32-bit mode
  • AMD Athlon64 and Opteron in 32-bit mode

eDirectory 8.8 supports these advanced features:

  • Multi-instances of eDirectory on the same box
  • Non-root install
  • Encrypted attributes

Connected System Server

  • Remote Loader
  • Remote Loader configuration tool (Windows only)
  • Novell Audit agent
  • Driver shim for the connected system
  • Tools for the connected system

Refer to the Identity Manager Driver documentation for operating system and connected system requirements specific to each system.

 

Web-based Administration Server

  • Identity Manager and Password Management iManager plug-ins
  • Driver configurations
  • End user password self-service

One of the following operating systems.

  • NetWare 6.5 with the latest Support Pack
  • Novell Open Enterprise Server (OES) with the latest Support Pack
  • Windows 2000, XP Professional, or 2003 (32-bit) with the latest Service Pack (2003 64-bit is not supported)
  • Linux Red Hat AS 3.0

    (Glibc version 2.1.1 or later and Kernel version 2.2.xx or later.)

  • Linux Red Hat 9
  • Solaris 9 or 10
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 or 9
  • SUSE Linux 9.1

The following software.

  • Novell iManager 2.5 or 2.6 (includes of Apache 2.0.52 or later and Tomcat 4.1.18 or later)

OES, NetWare, Windows, and Linux platforms (Red Hat and SUSE) support all of the following processors:

  • Intel x86 32-bit
  • AMD x86 32-bit
  • Intel EM64T 32-bit mode
  • AMD Athlon64 and Opteron in 32-bit mode
  • Browser support is determined by iManager 2.5. This list presently includes:
    • Internet Explorer 6, SP1 and above
    • Firefox 1.x and above
    • Mozilla 1.7 and above
  • You must go through the iManager Configuration Wizard or the Designer utility to install or deploy portal content into eDirectory.
  • If you install iManager 2.5 or 2.6 on the same server where eDirectory is installed, the version of eDirectory must be 8.7.3 or higher.
  • (Windows) The Novell Client™ 4.9 is available from Novell Software Downloads.
  • When logging into other trees with iManager to manage remote Identity Manager servers, you might encounter errors if you use the server name instead of the IP address for the remote server.

Utilities

  • License Auditing Tool
  • Application Tools (AD, Notes, SAP, PeopleSoft, and JDBC)
  • Novell Audit Setup tool

Refer to the Identity Manager Driver documentation for requirements specific to each system.