Who Can Benefit
Students who can benefit from this course are experienced identity management deployment engineers, architects, implementors, professional services consultants, partners, and other technical personnel directly responsible for deploying an identity management solution using Identity Manager.
Prerequisites
- Configure Identity Manager to meet common provisioning requirements
- Configure and schedule reconciliation operations
- Customize the End User pages
- Customize standard Form, Workflow, and Rule objects to address detailed requirements
- Write XPRESS code to transform and validate data
- Modify Form objects to support the administrator accounts
- Modify the approval workflow processing
- Debug a Workflow object using the Business Process Editor (BPE)
- Modify the operations available in the administration interface
Skills Gained
- Describe the advantages and disadvantages of Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) to traditional strategies for privilege management
- Describe a scenario-driven approach for implementing an RBAC solution
- Describe how each of the Sun Identity Management products are used in an RBAC solution
- Describe the challenges in implementing an RBAC solution, how to reduce the scope of the implementation, and where to find further information
Course Content
Module 1 - RBAC and Traditional Strategies for Privilege Management
- Define Roles and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) within Identity Management
- Describe the traditional strategies for privilege management
- Examine the advantages and disadvantages of Direct Privilege assignment
- Examine advantages and disadvantages of a simple RBAC model
- Describe how to leverage Information Technology (IT) and business roles
Module 2 - Scenario-Driven Approach
- Describe a scenario-driven approach
- Look at the relationships of the components
- Describe the methodology
- Describe how to perform a sanity-check
- Examine a sample use case diagram for a blog site
Module 3 - The Sun Solution
- Describe the vision of the Sun Java System Identity Management Services
- Examine how the Sun Java System Directory Server stores RBAC
- Examine how the Sun Java System Access Manager enforces RBAC
- Examine how the Sun Java System Identity Manager provisions RBAC
- Examine how the Sun Java System Identity Auditor validates RBAC
Module 4 - Challenges, Scope, and References
- Examine expectations
- Describe reducing the scope of implementation
- List helpful references




