Without Identity Manager, provisioning users can be a tedious, time-consuming, and costly effort. That effort, however, can pale in comparison to verifying that your provisioning activities have complied with your organization’s policies, requirements, and regulations. Do the right people have access to the right resources? Are the wrong people shut out of those same resources? Does the employee who started yesterday have access to the network, his e-mail, and the six other systems required for his job? Has the access been canceled for the employee who left last week?
With Identity Manager, you can relax in your knowledge that all of your user provisioning activities are being tracked and logged for auditing purposes. Identity Manager issues event messages for all activities that occur. By using Novell Sentinel™, you can collect these messages in order to generate the following types of reports:
All approval workflows over a specific period of time, with the actions (started, forwarded, denied, approved, and so forth) recorded for each workflow.
All resources provisioned over a specific period of time, with the actions (submitted, granted, revoked, success, and so forth) recorded for each resource.
All workflow statuses, password changes, and administrative changes for a user over a specific period of time.
All resource provisioning for a user over a specific period of time.
All resource provisioning for all users over a specific period of time.
Novell Sentinel is sold separately from Identity Manager.