Preparing For Staging; Identity Vault Structure; Drivers; Driver Configuration - Novell IDENTITY MANAGER 3.6.1 - STAGING BEST PRACTICES GUIDE 2010 Manual

Preparing for Staging

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The information covered in the following sections help you design your Identity Manager projects in
order to stage them easily. The abilities that Designer provides for staging the projects and some
challenges that you might face are also discussed.
Section 2.1, "Identity Vault Structure," on page 11
Section 2.2, "Drivers," on page 11
Section 2.3, "Objects That Designer Models," on page 12
Section 2.4, "Objects That Designer Does Not Model," on page 13
Section 2.5, "Rights," on page 14

2.1 Identity Vault Structure

An Identity Vault is primarily a flat eDirectory tree, which consists of several containers for users,
devices, groups, objects, and so on. Objects are stored in different containers for performance
reasons.
Make sure that you are familiar with the basic principles of directory design. A uniform directory
design simplifies administrative tasks for staging. For more information on directory design, refer to
the Directory Design for Identity Management Solutions (http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/
appnote/14533.html).

2.2 Drivers

You must create a common data model to allow drivers to work together.
Section 2.2.1, "Driver Configuration," on page 11
Section 2.2.2, "Using GCVs in Policies," on page 11
Section 2.2.3, "Simulation and Staging," on page 12

2.2.1 Driver Configuration

Even though each driver is unique and uses different policies, all drivers use the same guidelines to
make the driver configuration file consistent. For example, all policies and driver configuration files
have the same naming conventions and support the same common data module.
See Identity Manager Driver Configuration Development Guidelines (http://www.novell.com/
documentation/ncmp10/rk12_architecture/data/bg89kav.html)
drivers.

2.2.2 Using GCVs in Policies

Global Configuration Values (GCV) are global configuration values or constants, not global
variables. There is no way to change a GCV value at runtime. The GCVs are globally accessible to
the driver and driver set, but not to the tree or network. GCVs can be consumed by all drivers in a
for guidelines on developing new
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