Novell IDENTITY MANAGER 3.6.1 - STAGING BEST PRACTICES GUIDE... User manual

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Identity Manager 3.6.1 Staging Best Practices Guide

Identity Manager

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June 24, 2010

Identity Manager 3.6.1 Staging Best Practices Guide

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Contents 5

Contents

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About This Guide 7

1Overview 9

1.1 What is Staging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

1.2 Staging Use Cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

2 Preparing for Staging 11

2.1 Identity Vault Structure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

2.2 Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

2.2.1 Driver Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

2.2.2 Using GCVs in Policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

2.2.3 Simulation and Staging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

2.3 Objects That Designer Models. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

2.4 Objects That Designer Does Not Model. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

2.5 Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

2.5.1 Driver Equivalences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

2.5.2 Roles Based Entitlements Policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

2.5.3 Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

3 Staging a Project 17

3.1 Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

3.1.1 Importing Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

3.2 Staging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

3.3 Post-staging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

4 Best Practices in Moving Objects Across Stages 25

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About This Guide 7

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About This Guide

Welcome to Novell Identity Manager 3.6.1 Staging Best Practices Guide. This guide provides step-

by-step procedures to move your Identity Management solutions from one stage to the subsequent

stages.

This guide introduces the following:

Chapter 1, “Overview,” on page 9

Chapter 2, “Preparing for Staging,” on page 11

Chapter 3, “Staging a Project,” on page 17

Chapter 4, “Best Practices in Moving Objects Across Stages,” on page 25

Audience

The guide is intended for Identity Manager consultants and customers.

Feedback

We want to hear your comments and suggestions about this manual and the other documentation

included with this product. Please use the User Comments feature at the bottom of each page of the

online documentation, or go to www.novell.com/documentation/feedback.html and enter your

comments there.

Documentation Updates

For the most recent version of the Novell Identity Manager 3.6.1 Staging Best Practices Guide, visit

the Identity Manager Web site (http://www.novell.com/identity/access/identity_integration).

Additional Documentation

Understanding Designer for Identity Manager (http://www.novell.com/documentation/

designer30/designer_intro/data/front.html)

Identity Manager 3.6.1 Installation Guide (http://www.novell.com/documentation/idm36/

idm_install/data/front.html)

Understanding Policies for Identity Manager 3.6 (http://www.novell.com/documentation/

idm36/policy/data/bookinfo.html)

Policies in Designer 3.5 (http://www.novell.com/documentation/idm36/policy_designer/data/

bookinfo.html)

Novell Credential Provisioning for Identity Manager 3.6 (http://www.novell.com/

documentation/idm36/policy_credprov/data/bookinfo.html)

Identity Manager 3.6 DTD Reference (http://www.novell.com/documentation/idm36/

policy_dtd/data/bookinfo.html)

Identity Manager 3.6 Driver Guides (http://www.novell.com/documentation/idm36drivers/

index.html)

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Overview

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Overview

1.1 What is Staging

Software products need testing before they are deployed in an IT environment. Staging is a process

of development and testing software products. Staging provides users the flexibilty to validate

applications in real time to ensure uniformity across all stages.

Identity Manager staging is similar to any software deployment process. Nearly all the Identity

Manager projects operate in more than two stages, such as development, testing, and the production

environment.

Figure 1-1 Staging Movement

Figure 1-1 shows a basic representation of the movement of Identity Manager projects across

different stages. Three projects are developed and tested in three individual setups and then

connected in the next stage. The scale of projects grows with stages, but not necessarily the scale of

an individual driver.

Managing the movement of a tested solution across different stages and ensuring that nothing is left

out can be challenging for Identity Management consultants and customers. When Identity Manager

projects are moved from one stage to another, moving driver configurations becomes critical. To

successfully stage Identity Manager projects, certain other configurations must also be taken care of.

Novell Identity Manager Best Practices Staging Guide provides step-by-step procedures to move

your Identity Management solutions from one stage to the subsequent stages. The guide helps you to

reduce complexity in your Identity Manager deployment process, by helping you to test your

Identity Manager project at multiple stages before it is live.

In the following sections, you will find Designer at the center of discussion. As you already know,

Designer is critical to the Identity Manager project development, for developing policies, drivers,

PRDs, and so on. Designer is highly capable of bringing/creating the Identity Manager

configurations required for running an Identity Manager project and then deploying the

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configuration on another Identity Manager deployment. You must make certain other changes that

are discussed in this guide. Designer can also export Identity Manager environments into a single

configuration file and use the file later in a different environment. You can also use any version

control system to distribute projects.

Before you begin to use this guide, you should be familiar with Identity Manager and Designer. As

you create projects, you should have a uniform Identity Vault design across all the states so that

common objects are available. Some objects are moved automatically by Designer, but others

should be moved explicitly to make them available in the next stage. See Chapter 2, “Preparing for

Staging,” on page 11 for more information.

Moving authorizations across stages is a key issue for an Identity Vault security model. eDirectoryTM

authorizations are assigned to individual objects or to a collection of objects. These authorizations

play an important role in the object security because they determine the permission to access the

object to which they have been assigned. eDirectory authorizations can be performed through

Access Control Lists (ACLs) or Security Equivalances/Exclude Roles. Drivers, jobs, RBEs, and so

on should have enough permissions to successfully perform the desired operations. See Chapter 2,

“Preparing for Staging,” on page 11 for more information.

1.2 Staging Use Cases

The staging discussion is centered on these scenarios:

New Deployment: New drivers and applications are developed during the development stage,

then they are tested and moved to the test setup. These applications are put together and moved

to the production setup.

Existing Deployment: You already have a development, test, and production setup ready and

you want to move a new policy from the development setup in the production setup.

Existing Deployment discussion is not scoped for the current version of this document.

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