Novell Account Management

Note: Because the Novell Account Management functionality has been merged into the Novell Identity Management product line, it is no longer available as a standalone product. This discontinuation, which became effective Dec. 10, 2004, applies to Novell Account Management running on Mainframe, UNIX and Windows; Novell Account Management 3 Suite; and Novell Account Management 2.0.2 Software Media.

Documentation for Novell Account Management remains available.

Overview

To protect your servers and their resources, you need a uniform way to control and manage user account information across your various network platforms, including OS/390, Linux, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Windows NT Domain, Windows 2000 AD, Windows 2000/NT standalone and FreeBSD. Novell® Account Management is a cross-platform access-management product that provides consistent protection so your server platforms can work together reliably, as one Net. In addition, with Novell Account Management you can do the following:

• Protect and manage multiple server platforms
• Centrally manage users' identities
• Simplify password administration via a single username and password
• Instantly activate or deactivate users' accounts
• Provide users with appropriate access

A cross-platform network offers you flexibility: you can place individual business applications on the server platform that is most efficient for the application. However, inconsistencies among user accounts across multiple platforms can create security gaps that leave your network vulnerable to attack. Novell Account Management helps to close those gaps by providing a way to manage information about your users, across all of your diverse platforms. Novell Account Management also supports the most popular server platforms on today's market, including NetWare®, Windows 2000/NT and HP-UX. This enables you to leverage your existing network infrastructure, eliminate incompatibility issues and save money by avoiding costly and unnecessary upgrades.

In addition, with Novell Account Management you can manage user accounts, passwords and authentication for all of your server platforms, from a single point of administration. You will spend less time and money managing user accounts because changes you make to account information are distributed to every server on your network—instantaneously. For example, if you want to create a user account and enable access to resources on multiple operating systems, you simply configure and activate the user's account. And, with Novell Account Management, you only activate the account once because Novell Account Management updates all of your network's servers with the new account information.

By helping your multi-vendor systems work together, Novell Account Management improves your employees' productivity. Using Novell Account Management, you can provide your users with reliable and easy access to the applications and services they need. Furthermore, as your business evolves, Novell Account Management enables you to integrate new technology from different vendors simply and cost effectively. With Novell Account Management, you can also efficiently manage network resources and give your organization the competitive edge it needs to win in the Internet economy.