Course Description

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Extending IBM Tivoli Identity Manager 4.6
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Table of Contents:
• Course Description
• Objectives
• Who Will Benefit From This Course
• Required Skills/Knowledge
• Recommended Courses
• Course Outline

Duration: 4 Days
Delivery Method: Classroom
Language: English
Geography: All

Course Description

This course provides a deeper look into the capabilities of IBM Tivoli Identity Manager 4.6. Topics covered will include extending the schema, working with identity feeds, controlling access, provisioning accounts, creating advanced workflows, and more.

Objectives

After taking this course, the student will be able to:

• Extend the ITIM schema.
• Populate ITIM using multiple identity feeds.
• Implement role based access control (RBAC).
• Create custom adapters.
• Manage identities and accounts.
• Audit account provisioning.
• Design and implement advanced workflows.
• Troubleshoot failures in workflows.
• Create custom ITIM reports.
• Maintain an ITIM environment.
• Troubleshoot common errors in an ITIM environment. 

Who Will Benefit From This Course

This course is designed for ITIM administrators and operators to extend their understanding of how to utilize the product in their enterprise. Implementers of the product could also benefit by understanding how the system they are implementing can be extended. 

Required Skills/Knowledge

• Basic operating-system administrative skills for Unix and Windows NT/2000
• LDAP experience
• TCP/IP fundamentals
• Firewall concepts
• Skills attained in a IBM Tivoli Identity Manager 4.6 Introduction course
• Skills attained in a Utilizing IBM Tivoli Identity Manager 4.6 course
• Working knowledge of web protocols (HTTP, XML)
• Experience in reading, interpreting, and creating regular expressions
• Experience in modifying system parameters
• JavaScript writing and reading

Recommended Courses

• IBM Tivoli Identity Manager 4.6 Introduction Self-paced
• Tivoli Implementation Foundation Skills: LDAP Fundamentals Self-paced
• Utilizing IBM Tivoli Identity Manager 4.6 Classroom

Course Outline

1. Building and Customizing the Organization

• Describe the purpose of a custom ITIM person class
• Create a custom ITIM person class
• Add attributes to the LDAP schema
• Create new LDAP object class

2. Working with Identity Feeds

• Describe the purpose of using identity feeds
• Identify various sources of identity information
• Create a simply identity feed to add users to IBM Tivoli Identity Manager
• Create a complex identity feed using multiple data sources

3. Controlling Access

• Describe access control
• Describe the best practices and example ACIs
• Implement role based access control (RBAC) for ITIM
• Troubleshoot problems with access control

4. Working with Adapters

• Implement Operating System adapters
• Create custom adapters using ITDI
• Describe the adoption of system accounts
• Create the exclude accounts entry
• Manually add an exclude account profile into the LDAP directory
• Prevent the adoption of system accounts

5.Provisioning Accounts

• Create an identity policy
• Configure the entitlements within a provisioning policy
• Configure provisioning policy parameters
• Configure service prerequisites
• Audit resource access

6. Workflow Elements

• Identify the types of workflows and their purposes
• Create advanced workflows
• Troubleshoot common workflow problems
• Troubleshoot common script errors

7. Applied Workflows

• Create a recertification policy
• Create a justification policy
• Create a password expiration policy

8. Reporting

• Create custom ITIM reports

9. Troubleshooting and Maintaining an ITIM Environment

• Troubleshoot basic problems
• Find pertinent data in log files
• Apply ITIM knowledge to troubleshooting
• Maintain an ITIM environment 

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