Adventures in identity management
I’ve already posted about the configuration options that are common to all MAs, so this post is about the options specific to the Active Directory MA, though much of it will also apply to the other LDAP-types – Sun and Netscape, Netware, ADAM, IBM Directory Server and openLDAP.
Continuing in my newbie series of posts, today I am going to step through the creation of a Management Agent. Configuration options differ depending on the type of MA, so in this post I will just look at the options that are common to all.
ILM is tricky to learn whichever way you approach it. If you’re from a sys admin background, like me, then the dawning realisation that you have to code may come as rather a shock.
I started this blog as a way to help other people like myself (ie system administrators) who were just starting out with ILM (then MIIS), and finding it heavy going. Even so I made assumptions about the level of reader knowledge, and now I plan to address that by starting from the very beginning with…
I had an interesting chat with an ILM collegue the other day, and one of the topics that came up was whether you should ever, under any circumstances, call external processes from extension code. The prohibition on calling external processes from provisioning (MVExtension) code is clear and well accepted (see the Calling External Processes section…
More a blag than a blog today – I’m very happy to have been asked to present a session on ILM at the TechDays event in Geneva this March. Do come and say hello if you happen to be there too.
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)…