# 3. Configuration Management: What's New

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## 1. iManager Property Page for Identity Vaults

A new iManager properties page has been added on the Identity Vault. This lets you configure the iManager URL for each individual Identity Vault. To do this, right-click an Identity Vault and select Properties > iManager.

## 2. Host List Control

As a productivity convenience, the connectivity page on eDirectory and NDS applications lists the IP-Addresses/ DNS-Names for NDS and eDirectory applications. All items in the list show in the host drop-down boxes on all of the connectivity tabs -- LDAP, VNC, and eDirectory. If you enter an IP address or DNS name in any host field, it is automatically added to the host list.
You can add, edit, and delete items from the host list.

## 3. Custom Reciprocal Mapping

The Custom Reciprocal Mapping feature allows you to create and manage backlinks between objects. For example, the Group object includes a Members attribute that contains pointers to all User objects that belong to that group. Similarly, each User object includes a Members Of attribute that points to the Group objects of which that user is a member. These two-way links between objects are known as reciprocal mappings.

## 4. Driver Set Named Passwords

Designer 3.0 allows named passwords to be managed on a driver set, similar to how they are managed on a driver. The addition of named passwords on a driver set in Identity Manager 3.6 allows the named passwords to be inherited by each driver under the driver set. Allowing for inheritance, similar to how global configuration values are inherited, allows you to declare a single named password on the driver set instead of declaring a duplicate named password on each driver. The inheritance is strictly a run-time operation. When editing the named passwords of a driver, the named passwords of the driver set are not displayed.

## 5. DirXML Trace File Encoding Support

Designer 3.0 allows encoding for the trace file to be set for drivers, driver sets, and jobs.

## 6. Updated Property Page Ordering

The property pages across Designer 3.0 are listed in the alphabetical order, except for the General page, similar to that of eclipse. The page title has been updated to be more elaborate than the label that is displayed in the list of property pages.

## 7. Configuration of Driver Health

The Driver Health Configuration allows you to monitor a driver's state of health (green, yellow, or red), and to specify the actions to perform in response to each of these health states. To do so, you define the conditions (criteria) that determine each of the health states, along with the associated actions to perform whenever the driver's health state changes. For example, if the driver's health changes from a green state to a yellow state (based on the conditions you've established), you can perform such actions as restarting the driver, shutting down the driver, and sending an e-mail to the person who is designated to resolve issues with the driver.

## 8. Java Environment Parameters

The Properties page lets you customize how the Identity Manager JRE can start. You can set up additional classpath, initial heap size, and maximum heap size. The JVM options entry is a good place to set up debugging information.

## 9. Default Notification Templates

A new action has been added to Designer 3.0 to install only the English templates. To do this, right-click the Default Notification Collection from the Outline view and select Add Default Templates. However, this action will not install all of the localized versions of the template. In order to get the localized version of a specific template, right-click the template and select Add Localized Templates.

## 10. ID Provider Driver

The ID Provider driver is a new driver that is included with Identity Manager 3.6. It is a service driver and is included with the core drivers. The ID Provider driver enables you to create and maintain a central source of unique IDs that can be consumed by client applications or systems. For more information, see the Identity Manager 3.6 ID Provider Driver Implementation Guide.

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