Adventures in identity management
You don’t always have access to a proper IdM system. At the moment I’m at an organisation which still uses the old, manual ways of updating AD. I was asked if I knew an easy way to update the mobile phone numbers of a list of users, the data having been sent to Helpdesk in…
The second topic first – I’m still here, but haven’t had the opportunity to do anything much related to IdM lately. As some readers will be aware, I started this blog during a period of voluntary unemployment as a way of documenting all the things I’d learnt about MIIS in the previous 2 years. Partly…
As is normal at any conference, DEC 2007 had its sponsors that were keen to show off their products. My journey with MIIS so far has been an entirely DIY affair, so I was interested to have a squizz at the products on display. It was a small conference, and there were only three software…
I’m just back from the DEC 2007 conference in Brussels. Unfortunately I had to miss the last day, which is a pity as there were some good SQL-related talks on the schedule, but I did get to go to all the ILM talks, as well as picking up a few MIIS pointers, and (most importantly)…
I’ve found myself repeating this on MMSUGÂ a couple of times recently, so a post is probably in order. Don’t go deleting everything just because a CS object disappears! There’s a dangerous little form in the Metaverse Design section of Identity Manager which allows you to set your Object Deletion Rule. By the simple expedient of…
As I mentioned recently, this is a quiet time for the blog as I’ve been travelling around with the family, and we still have a couple more weeks of living out of suitcases to do. But I do have some free time today, so I thought it was high time for a highlights list of…
You can even learn about MIIS while on vacatio!. I was skimming through my MMSUG digest this morning when I read Joe Stepongzi’s answer to someone about finding transient objects in the connector space by using csexport. I jumped onto my virtual server to give csexport a go, and it looks like a mighty useful…
I’m off travelling for the next month or so, and then I’ll be settling into a new home in Geneva. I’ve pretty much come to the end of the articles I had in mind when I started this blog. I hope they have been of use to some people (and thanks to those who’ve been…
Good monitoring and alerting is an essential, but often under-loved, part of any computing infrastructure. The complexities and multiple dependencies of even a straight-forward MIIS installation make systematic monitoring absolutely essential. Server Health Obviously you will be monitoring that the server itself is actually up. I believe something a little more than a ping is…
MiisApp was designed to be a toolset for non-administrative users who needed to interact with MIIS in certain, well-specified ways. Some of these tasks do not directly involve MIIS itself, but are for setting up the data appropriately – such as the forms for viewing source data. An issue that came up from time to…