Designer for Identity Manager is a powerful, graphical tool set that helps you design, configure, test, document, and deploy Identity Manager. Novell® Designer 3.5 provides a number of key enhancements to various components. These enhancements extend the product’s capabilities, improves the existing features, and enhances security. These key features include:
For component specifics, see the following sections:
Designer Role-based Entitlements allows you to manage association between the entitlements and the users. The Entitlements Service Driver implements entitlements through entitlement policies.
Designer is a full-fledged RCP application. As an RCP application, the overall performance of Designer is significantly improved. The post-install size on the disk is significantly reduced. Designer RCP indicates an improved performance in several areas, including installation; launching the workspace; importing or exporting multiple projects; creating, deleting, or saving projects; and in several live operations. Designer RCP offers an improved, simpler usability.
Designer facilitates moving Identity Manager projects from one stage to another. You can store additional objects (objects that are not modeled in the Designer) in LDIF format under LDIF container in the Identity Vault.
Designer facilitates defining the Security Equivalences from LDIF files and associating them with the drivers.
Schema Compare compares the Designer Identity Vault schema with the live Identity Vault Schema. You can launch the Schema Compare Dialog by right clicking on 'ID Vault' > Live > Schema > Compare. Once you launch the dialog, it displays a list of schema attributes and classes that differ between the Designer and the Identity Vault. In addition, you can also see the classes and attributes in the schema. When you select an individual class or an attribute, it shows the compare status as equal or unequal. You can also view the differences between the individual classes/attributes in the bottom half of the dialog.
Structured Global Configuration Values
Structured global configuration values allow you to place GCVs into a group. You do this by creating a template containing the GCVs that you want in the group, along with their default values. Then, you create instances of the template with the values you want to change. Support for adding, editing, and displaying Structured Global Configuration Values is now available in the Driver and Driver-set GCV Preference pages. Structured GCVs can also be used on Shim Parameters and Job Parameters pages.
RBPM 3.7 requires an updated Provisioning and Roles Service Driver. These new drivers are included in this release.
Team Editor
You can now create a team in Designer for a particular domain. A new Team Editor is also available. You can now view and edit the recently added attributes in the Team Editor.
Some of the deprecated attributes cannot be found in the new Team Editor. In addition, you can also view permissions for the new team.
Resource Editor
Designer 3.5 includes the beta version of the Provisioning Resource Editor. Because the feature is not fully developed, it is recommended to create and edit all Resources by using the User Application.
The release includes support for the Resource Binding activity, used in the Resource Approval workflow.
New Configuration Applications
SAP BizLogic, SAP GRC AC, SAP Portal, and Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM) Driver
These applications have been added to the Modeler Palette.
When you install support packages for Designer (NDSbase and NICI), certain Linux core utilities are needed. The GNU gettext utilities provide a framework for internationalized and multilingual messages. Before installing Designer, make sure that you have installed this package. You can use YaST to check for dependencies and installed packages.
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