Novell Access Manager
Integrates Easily
You don't have to replace your existing authentication systems. Using Access Gateway, Novell Access Manager™ easily integrates with your current authentication systems, and works out of the box. No need to rip and replace anything.
Access Gateway is the HTTP-proxy component of Novell Access Manager. In addition to providing award-winning Novell security and proxy services like (i.e., authorization, single sign-on and data encryption), it is also integrated with the new identity and policy services of Novell Access Manager. With Access Gateway, organizations can transform identity provider authentication and services into standard Web headers, form-fill responses and basic authentication responses. In other words, Access Gateway enables an organization's existing Web applications to support new identity standards without any modification.
For example, the policy-enabled Identity Injection feature of Access Gateway (formerly known as Object Level Access Control), can leverage the Liberty Alliance Web Services Framework to extract identity information and then inject it into Web headers or query strings.
Novell Access Manager delivers access to legacy Web services by processing the policies that govern these systems and by using components such as J2EE agents and Access Gateways. These components perform tasks like form-fill, basic authentication and header injection to provide users seamless access to legacy Web systems. In some cases, organizations require their legacy Web services to use an alias user ID and password. Novell Access Manager allows any combination of attributes from the identity store(s) to be used as the user ID and password. Either the user or an automated process can maintain the attributes that contain associated user IDs and passwords. This approach is a user-friendly way to implement strong password policies. This feature of Novell Access Manager, coupled with the federated provisioning feature, delivers a powerful integration tool for legacy-based systems.