3.0 Technical Guidelines

The information that you gather in Designer allows you to make the technical decisions such as installation location and configuration options about each component of Identity Manager. For an introduction to each component, see the Identity Manager 4.0 Overview Guide guide. Figure 3-1 is one possible configuration of an Identity Manager solution.

Figure 3-1 Identity Manager Components

Identity Manager is very customizable. The following sections contain technical best practices guidelines to help set up and configure the Identity Manager solution that works best for your environment. Variables that affect how these guidelines apply to your environment include the type of hardware you have for your servers, how your WAN is configured, and how many objects are being synchronized.