Product Description

NetIQ eDirectory is the foundation for the world's largest identity management deployments, and is a high-end directory service that allows businesses to manage identities and security access for employees, customers, and partners. With eDirectory, businesses lay the groundwork for secure identity management solutions and multi-platform network services.

NetIQ eDirectory complies with the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol version 3 (LDAP v3) standard. eDirectory supports several open standards which helps organizations maximize their technology investments and avoid getting locked in to any particular vendor's product set.

With eDirectory, you have real-time control over users' access to network resources. If you terminate their access to the network, they will be instantly locked out. Swift, precise control over users and resources helps block unauthorized access and saves you money. eDirectory also provides a very flexible security framework, including support for any combination of biometrics, smart cards, tokens, digital certificates, and other authentication methods.

Only NetIQ eDirectory provides top-to-bottom business continuity assurances. eDirectory includes automated self-maintenance to catch and correct minor errors, as well as industry-leading multi-master data replication to ensure always-on failover capabilities. And finally, eDirectory can back up its data while the system is online, facilitating comprehensive disaster recovery in the event of a large-scale outage.

NetIQ eDirectory has been publicly scaled to one billion identities. This means that as your business grows, eDirectory can easily accommodate additional identities without any performance degradation.

NetIQ eDirectory provides flexible, centralized management of users, resources, devices, and policies. Its management console, NetIQ iManager, provides secure, Web-based access to all administration functions. This feature eliminates both administrative redundancy and unnecessary travel, saving you time and money.

New Features

The eDirectory 9.1 includes new features, enhancements, and support for latest platforms across eDirectory components.

  • Support for Auditing with CEF
    This release introduces Common Event Format (CEF), a standard event format to facilitate the merging and analysis of audit information from multiple components at the distributed system level. The CEF format uses the Syslog message format as a transport mechanism. CEF is an extensible text-based format that is designed to support multiple device types such as on-premise devices and cloud-based services.

  • New Installer for Windows
    eDirectory introduces a new installer for Windows to simplify and improve its install and upgrade processes. Using the new installer, eDirectory installation becomes much faster compared to its previous versions.

  • Support for LDAP Extended DN Control
    This version of eDirectory provides LDAP Extended DN Control which is used with an extended LDAP search to request an extended form of object Distinguished Name. The extended form includes a string representation of Object GUID along with Distinguished Name of the object.

  • eDirectory Enhancements
    • Support for 8192-bit RSA Certificate
      Using this version of eDirectory, you can create CA or server certificates with 8192-bit RSA encryption. Ensure that you are using eDirectory 9.1, iManager 3.1 and eDirectory 9.1 PKI Plug-in before configuring a server certificate with 8192-bit RSA public key.

    • Support for Customizing Default Certificate Generation
      This version of eDirectory provides three new options while configuring the CA or server certificates during configuring a new eDirectory server. Using these options, you can set the RSA key size, EC Curve limit and the certificate life for your certificates.

    • Performance Improvement for Indexing
      This version of eDirectory provides the support for prefixing the Ancestor ID with the list of attributes passed while creating a new index.

For a complete list of the new features and enhancements in 9.1 and previous releases, see eDirectory 9.1 Documentation Website.

NetIQ eDirectory 9.1, for all supported platforms, is available for free for evaluation in nonproduction environments. If you want to run NetIQ eDirectory 9.1 in a production environment, see How to Buy NetIQ eDirectory.

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For more information on eDirectory 9.1, refer to the NetIQ eDirectory 9.1 documentation.

Download and Installation

Platform Filename
Linux
Default eDirectory_910_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz
Nonroot eDirectory_910_Linux_x86_64_NonRoot.tar.gz
Windows
Default eDirectory_910_Windows_x86_64.exe

NOTE: Ensure that you check currently installed NetIQ and 3rd Party applications to determine if eDirectory 9.1 is supported before upgrading your existing eDirectory environment. It is also highly recommended to backup eDirectory prior to any upgrades.

Platform-Specific Downloads (Default Installation)

Before installing the product, refer to the prerequisites and installation sections in the NetIQ eDirectory 9.1 Installation Guide.

Installing on Windows

To install NetIQ eDirectory 9.1 on Windows, complete the following procedure:

  1. Create a directory on your server or computer (for example, C:\eDirectory).
  2. On the Novell Product Downloads page, find eDirectory 9.1 Platform-Specific Downloads, then click Download.
  3. Follow the onscreen prompts to download the zipped file to the directory you created.
  4. Unzip the file.
  5. Then go to the "eDirectory" folder > "windows" folder > run "eDirectory_910_Windows_x86_64.exe"

Installing on Linux

To install NetIQ eDirectory 9.1 on Linux, complete the following procedure:

  1. Create a directory on the Linux host.
  2. On the Novell Product Downloads page, find eDirectory 9.1 Platform-Specific Downloads, then click Download.
  3. Follow the onscreen prompts to download the zipped file to the directory you created.
  4. Use gunzip to convert the downloaded file to a tar file.
  5. Use tar xvf to extract the eDirectory build.
  6. Then go to "eDirectory" > "setup" directory > run "./nds-install".

Tarball File Downloads (Nonroot Installation)

Installing on Linux

To install NetIQ eDirectory 9.1 as a nonroot user on Linux, complete the following procedure:

  1. Create a directory on the Linux host.
  2. On the Novell Product Downloads page, find eDirectory 9.1 Tarball Downloads, then click Download.
  3. Follow the onscreen prompts to download the zipped file to the directory you created.
  4. Use gunzip to convert the downloaded file to a tar file.
  5. Use tar xvf to extract and install eDirectory.

Known Issues

For information on additional eDirectory issues for this release, see the NetIQ eDirectory 9.1 Readme files.

For information on additional iManager issues for this release, see the NetIQ iManager 3.1 Readme file.