Design, Deploy, and Document Novell Nsure® Identity Manager Solutions With the New Designer for Nsure Identity Manager

Larry Chinski

Identity Services

Novell, Inc.

Complexity of Identity Management

Education

Complexities of connected systems

Limited number of trained consultants

Business Policies and Transformations

Defined using Rules and XSLT Stylesheets

XSLT not widely understood

Deployments

Risks of provisioning corporate data

Lengthy deployments

Troubleshooting

Complexity of Identity Management

Deployments - cont.

Debugging

Staging

Source management

Documentation

Not unique to Novell

These issues cannot all be addressed by a single tool

The Evolution of Policy Management

DirXML® and XSLT

Text Based

Dependent on knowledge of XSLT

Roughly 80% XSLT vs. XML

DirXML

XSLT

XSLT Rule

Identity Manager Policy Builder

Web-based

Remote access

Centralized administration - No need for individual installs

Platform independent

Environment configuration based on roles

Policy Builder - Rule

Identity Manager Designer

Simplify Identity Manager configuration and deployment

Reduce steps and speed productivity

Selecting the environment

Client

Web

Remote Access

Password Management

Monitoring

Debugging

Version Control

Modeling

XML / XSLT Editor

Roles Administration

Basic

Configuration

Auditing

Simulation

Work offline

Test & Deploy

Policy Management

Global Cut Copy Paste

Account Creation

White Pages

Administration

Life Cycle Management

Client Functionality
Non-committed Features

Enterprise Modeling

Projects, Versioning, Staging

Configuration

Policy Management

Debugging & Simulation

Test & Deploy

Data Analysis & Scrubbing

Ease of Use & Productivity

Integrated XML/XSLT Editor

Integrated System Tools

Project Documentation

The Eclipse Workbench

What is Eclipse Workbench?

An open source tool integration platform

Plug-In environment

A home for your tools

Open source product

Tools of all types will be developed

Identity management plug-ins will be developed

Java development environment

Integrated Development Environment

You don't need to be a developer!

Eclipse was developed using Eclipse

The Framework for Nsure Identity Manager Deployment Studio

Designer for Identity Manager:
Graphical Modelling Tool – Policy Management

Designer for Identity Manager:
Graphical Modelling Tool – Policy Management

Demonstration

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