Course Description

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Identity Manager 4.6 for Security Administrators

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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: Instructor-led Classroom

Also available through our new remote web class

Language: English
Geography: Worldwide

Course Description

This course introduces Security Administrators to the management of the user identity through out the enterprise. In addition it familiarizes them with the capabilities of the IBM Tivoli Identity Manager as to how to provision to applications such as PeopleSoft, SAP, AD, LDAP, Applications servers (Websphere, AquaLogic, and others), Web servers, and RDBS (Oracle, DB2, and others). Topics covered: Tivoli Identity Management overview, organization management, role management, service management, provisioning services management and control policy formulation and enforcement for regulatory compliance through proper control by applying the identity and provisioning polices.  It also makes it easy for the security administrators to handle the daily tasks to add/remove, debug and resolve issues of the enterprise identity needs.  This class enables organizations to maximize return on the Tivoli Identity Manager by reducing the cost of managing the identity for the enterprise by centralizing of the identity management.

Objectives

After completing this course, students will be able to accomplish the following:

• Add organizational units, locations, business partner organizations, admin domains, static and dynamic organizational roles, and navigate through LDAP.
• Manually add users, load user data, describe self registration, and manage user information.
• Create ITIM groups and access control items (ACIs).
• Create services and corresponding identity, password, and service selection policies.
• Create provisioning policies and set join directives, preview provisioning policies, configure provisioning policy parameter lists, provision and manage user accounts, analyze, notify, and correct noncompliant accounts, provision multiple accounts, and adopt orphaned accounts.
• Create a scheduled reconciliation and perform a manual reconciliation.
• Describe workflow elements, create basic workflows, approve account requests, describe Notifications and use the Notification Post Office.
• Describe and configure lifecycle management.
• View reports and design custom reports.
• Manage identities and accounts.
• Audit account provisioning.
• Configure forms, password settings and synchronization and export and import ITIM objects.

Who Will Benefit From This Course

This course is designed for ITIM security administrators and operators to provide them a solid understanding as to how to utilize the product and to manage the enterprise identities. System administrators and architects also benefit by understanding how the details of setting up a new organizing and provisioning users to the target systems

Required Skills/Knowledge

The following list contains the prerequisite knowledge or Tivoli product knowledge an attendee must have prior to attending the course:

• 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 Overview 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

• Preparing for IBM Tivoli Identity Manager 4.6 Implementation
• IBM Tivoli Identity Manager 4.6 Introduction Self-paced

Course Outline

• Unit 1: IBM Tivoli Identity Manager 4.6 for Security Administrators – an overview

• Unit 2: Introduction to Organization tree Management

• Unit 3: How to manage enterprise users

• Unit 4: An overview of adding and using services on the target systems

• Unit 5: Intro to provisioning of the enterprise Applications

• Unit 6: Managing Workflows

• Unit 7: House keeping with life cycle management

• Unit 8: Securing and Monitoring Web Portal Server Applications

• Unit 9: Using the reporting facilities

• Unit 10: Troubleshooting

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