Novell Identity Audit 1.0 is an easy to use, lightweight tool for collecting, aggregating, and storing events from Novell Identity Manager, Novell Access Manager, Novell eDirectory, and other Novell identity and security products and technologies. Key features include:
Web-based administration and reporting interfaces
Full-event search tool allows searches across multiple event fields
Selected event output to several channels
Embedded JasperReports engine allows the use of open source tools for customizing included reports or creating new reports
Built-in database eliminates the need for external database licenses or administration
Simple, intuitive data management tools
Novell Identity Audit is a replacement for Novell Audit and is related to Novell Sentinel™, but there are significant differences.
Novell Identity Audit 1.0 is designed as a replacement product for the Novell Audit product line, which leaves general support in February 2009. Identity Audit is comparable in functionality, but with major improvements in architecture, reporting, and data management. Novell Identity Audit 1.0 is a drop-in replacement for the Novell Audit 2.0.2 Secure Logging Server for products in the Novell Identity and Security product line. Because Novell Identity Audit uses a new embedded database, customers should keep existing Novell Audit events in the archived Novell Audit database rather than attempting to migrate legacy data.
The Novell Audit client component, also known as the Platform Agent, is still used as the data transport mechanism for Novell Identity Audit. This will continue to be supported according to the life cycles of Novell Identity and Access Management products that still use the Platform Agent.
Novell Identity Audit is built on a robust technological foundation, because much of the underlying code is shared with Novell Sentinel. However, Sentinel collects data from a broader range of devices, supports a higher event rate, and provides more tools than Novell Identity Audit. Sentinel provides additional Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) features, such as real-time dashboards, multi-event correlation, incident tracking and automated remediation, and data collection from non-Novell products. Identity Audit is designed to integrate into a future Sentinel deployment.
Novell Identity Audit 1.0 is not part of the Novell Compliance Management Platform (CMP) and does not include the advanced identity and security integration features delivered in that platform. Sentinel 6.1 is presently the identity audit and monitoring component of the CMP.