Before you install and use the driver, you should determine which kind of installation you want to use: local or remote.
A local installation installs the driver on the same host computer where you have Identity Manager installed.
A remote installation installs the driver on a different computer than the one where Identity Manager is installed. Remote installations use SSL encryption to ensure data privacy. You should use this configuration when it is not possible or desirable to run Identity Manager on the SAP host system.
To know more about the Remote Loader and the shim that it uses, see Deciding Whether to Use the Remote Loader
in the Novell Identity Manager 3.5.1 Administration Guide.