CA Identity Manager Implementation Guide - CA Technologies

Business Changes in Identity ManagerBusiness Changes in Identity ManagerThe Identity Manager Server, which users access through the Identity ManagerUser Console or through public tasks, typically manages a company’s businesstasks. These tasks may include user management, delegation, self service,approvals, business logic and password management.The Identity Manager Server offers the following benefits:■■A single location for user management.Fine-grained privilege management—Roles, scope rules, and delegatedadministration allow administrators to share their workload whilemaintaining control over which objects a delegated administrator canmanage.Note: For more information, see the Administration Guide.■Customized user interfaces—You can customize the appearance and contentof the CA Identity Manager task screens to suit your business needs. Forexample, you can create two sets of tasks—one for employees and one forcustomers. Each set of tasks can include different branding and can collectdifferent information.Note: For more information, see the Configuration Guide.■■Support for Multiple Platforms—CA Identity Manager runs on WebLogic,WebSphere, and JBoss application servers running on Windows or Solarissystems.Support for multiple user store types—CA Identity Manager can manageusers in multiple types of LDAP user directories and relational databases.For a complete list of supported user store types, see the CA IdentityManager support matrix on CA Support.Terminology ChangesExisting eTrust Admin customers may notice certain terms have changed nowthat eTrust Admin is part of CA Identity Manager. The following table showsthese changes:eTrust Admin TermeTrust Admin ServereTrust Admin ManagerDirectoryNamespacePolicy or Provisioning PolicyNew Term in Identity ManagerProvisioning ServerProvisioning ManagerEndpoint, EndpointsEndpoint TypeAccount Template110 Implementation Guide