IDM Best Practices#

We have some IDM Best Practices that we often use with clients.

IDM Project Planning - Methodologies#

Requirements Assessment #

Output Documents#

1. RA Design Document
2. Customer Requirements Definition / What We Heard.
3. High Level System and Data Mapping

Analysis and Design#

Analysis and Requirements Verification#

• Source code Control
• Policy and Connector Simulation

Architecture and System Design#

• Architecture
• Connector Detailed Design and Development
  • Filters (Subscriber and Publisher)
    • Object Class
    • Attributes
• Policies
  • Matching Policy
  • Creation Policy
  • Placement Policy
  • Transformations
  • Schema Mapping
  • Input Transformation
  • Output Transformation
  • Event Transformations

Pilot Staging#

During the Staging or pilot more, more and more users are utilizing the IdM infrastructure.

Documentation#

1. Detailed Data Mapping Table
2. High Level Architecture Document
3. Finalize Design Document
4. Detail Connector Design Document

Production Deployment #

Maintenance and Support #

1. Education for the Client

1. IDM Driver Failover
2. NICI Tree Key Provider
3. Tree CA Backup

Novell IDM Naming Conventions#

More Information#

There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:

• Big Project Overview
• DirXML