Adventures in identity management
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…
To try and decrease my code maintenance on MiisApp I introduced a number of dynamic menus that were built at application startup, and then refreshed periodically. Now I don’t want to go into all the code specifics here. I am not a software developer, and the code I wrote for this application was very site-specific. However…
A big priority in cobbling together a client application for MIIS was to provide evidence that MIIS was in business. If people could watch MIIS in action they would, by degrees, start to feel more comfortable with it – in what order it did things; how long a typical cycle takes; and just general warm-fuzzies…
I think it’s fair to say that the majority of problems encountered in an IdM installation are to do with data. Data that’s wrong, data that’s missing, data that includes illegal characters or 17 tabs at the end – the possibilities for bad data really are endless. One of the messages I found myself attempting…
One of my complaints about MIIS has always been the lack of a client application that can be run on a workstation. In any organisation large enough to need (and afford) MIIS there are going to be multiple people who need to interact with it. They may not be scheduling syncs, but they could well…