iManager Overview
and Configuration Basics

Dave Adamson

Novell, Inc.

Cathie Ogden

Novell, Inc.

Ryan Atkinson

Novell, Inc.

Novell iManager
Overview

Personal Experience

Console interface shows this user her specific tasks:

Setup groups

Define Roles and Tasks

Directory-specific
administration tasks

Company XYZ Employee

Super Administrator

Personal Experience

Console interface shows this user his specific tasks:

Create Users

Change password

Various other delegated tasks

Common Experience

Log on to web site

Identity, authentication and security via eDirectory™

Novell iManager
Summary of customer benefits

Strengthens the business value of Novell products and solutions by providing a unified management interface

Reduces customer barriers to adoption of Novell products and solutions

Reduces customer administration and training costs via a web-based access to network resources

Increases overall console quality via focused effort

Developer Friendly

Create administration interfaces easily
(with little or no development experience)

Flexible (beyond Novell-only usage)

Provides support for partner offerings

Novell iManager
Value proposition

Role based services for delegation of administrative tasks

Object selector

Common look and feel

Multi-platform Installation of web environment

Leveraged Authentication

Localization

Model-view-controller architecture

Easy plug-in deployment

Architectural Overview

1

Web Server

(Apache)

Request

-HTTPS Get

-HTTPS Post

Response

Servlet Container (Tomcat)

iManager Web Application

eDirectory

iManager Plugin

Business Logic

(Java)

Plug-in Descriptor

(XML)

Presentation Logic

(Java/JSP)

iManager 2.5 Architecture

iManager

Framework

Other Resource

Client Device

iManager Access Modes

iManager Access Modes

iManager executes under three access modes

Unrestricted

Assigned Access

Collection Owner

The current mode is displayed in the upper left hand corner of iManager and on the home page

Unrestricted Access Mode

Unrestricted Access

This is the default mode before RBS is configured

Role and task information is read from the file system

All roles and tasks are visible

The authenticated user will still need the necessary rights assignments to use the tasks

Assigned Access Mode

Assigned Access

This mode displays only the roles and tasks assigned to the authenticated user

A role may be assigned to a user directly or indirectly through an organization or an organizational unit, a group, an organizational role, a dynamic group or any object that has had the dynamic group auxiliary class attached

The authenticated user will have all necessary rights assignments to use the assigned tasks

This mode takes full advantage of the Role Based Services (RBS) technology

Collection Owner Access Mode

Collection Owner Access

This mode displays all the roles and tasks in the collection for which the authenticated user is an owner

The authenticated user will still need the necessary rights assignments to use the tasks

This mode also displays any other roles and tasks assigned to the authenticated user

RBS must be configured in order to use this mode

What's new in iManager 2.5

Changes in iManager 2.5

Improved installation – including installation of Plug-in Modules

Removed dependency on Novell Portal Services

General defect fixes

New Categories for Plug-in modules

Improved user interface for configuring Role-based Services

New reporting capabilities for Role-bases Services

Ability to customize colors and graphics (create skins) to leverage corporate branding

Mobile iManager

New Categories

New UI for RBS Configuration

New UI for RBS Configuration

RBS Reporting

Custom Colors and Graphics

Basic Configuration
of iManager 2.5

Basic Configuration of iManager 2.5

Mobile iManager – what is it and how does it work?

Configuration information now stored in files system

iManager Views

Improved installation of Plug-in Modules

Logging

Customizable interface - skins

Improved installation of Plug-in Modules

Configuration for Logging

Configuration for Look and Feel

More detailed information

For more detailed information about iManager please visit the following sessions or the iManager booth in the lab.

TUT 347: Novell iManager Advanced Configuratoin

DHO 246: Novell iManager Custom Tasks

iManager and Mobile iManager can be downloaded from http://download.novell.com

This slide simply illustrates the Novell iManager approach to Role-based services.

Assigning Roles and Tasks results in the appropriate end-user experience in iManager. It is important to realize that Novell iManager is not a Portal. Novell iManager is an extensible Web Console for managing Novell products (and partners).

Provides a more intuitive approach to grouping roles and tasks

The 'All Categories' selection displays all available roles and tasks

14 default categories are shipped with iManager 2.5

All Novell based content is assigned to a particular category

You may create new categories and assign roles and tasks to then as your company needs

should be unique to avoid conflicts

TUT246

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