Release notes - IBM® Documentum Adapter 5.1.3
Welcome to the IBM Tivoli Identity Manager Documentum Adapter.
These Release Notes contain information for the following products that was not available when the IBM Tivoli Identity Manager manuals were printed:
· IBM Tivoli Identity Manager Documentum Adapter Installation and Configuration Guide
The Documentum Adapter is designed to create and manage accounts on Documentum Content Server. The adapter runs in 'agent' or 'agentless' mode. To run the adapter in 'agent' mode, it must be installed on the Documentum server. To run the adapter in 'agentless' mode the adapter must be installed on the machine where the Documentum Administrator is installed. To install the Documentum administrator follow the steps given in the admin guide. The adapter communicates using the Documentum API to the systems being managed.
A single copy of the adapter can handle one Identity Manager Service. The deployment configuration is based, in part, on the topology of your network domain, but the primary factor is the planned structure of your Identity Manager Provisioning Policies and Approval Workflow process. Please refer to the Identity Manager Information Center for a discussion of these topics.
The Identity Manager adapters are powerful tools that require administrator level authority. Adapters operate much like a human system administrator, creating accounts, permissions and home directories. Operations requested from the Identity Manager server will fail if the adapter is not given sufficient authority to perform the requested task. IBM recommends that this adapter run with administrative (root) permissions.
Service Groups Management
The ability to manage service groups is a new feature introduced in TIM 5.1. By service groups, TIM is referring to any logical entity that can group accounts together on the managed resource.
Managing service groups implies the following:
Create service groups on the managed resource. Modify attribute of a service group.
Delete a service group.
Note that service group name change is not supported in TIM 5.1 release.
The Documentum adapter does not support service groups management.
Adapter Version
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Release Date |
2013 March 08 07.59.22 |
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Adapter Version |
5.1.3 |
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Component Versions |
Adapter Build : 5.1.3.24 Profile : 5.1.3.24 ADK 5.20 |
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Documentation |
Documentum Adapter Installation and Configuration Guide SC14-7645-00 |
New Features
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Enhancement # (FITS) |
Description |
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Items included in current release |
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RFE 29870 |
Added support for user login domain attribute |
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Items included in 5.1.2 release |
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N/A |
Docuemtum adapter support for Documentum Enterprise Content Services 6.7
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Items included in 5.1.1 release |
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MR0806085055 |
TIM adapter for EMC Documentum and support on TIM v5.x |
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MR0211085853 |
Documentum adapter support for latest version of Documentum Server |
Closed Issues
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Internal# |
APAR# |
PMR# / Description |
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Items closed in current version |
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IV3280 |
Documentum crashes when requests are processed
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IV35795
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After reconciliation all document groups are getting under account entries |
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Items included in 5.1.2 release |
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None |
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Items included in 5.1.1 release |
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None |
Known Issues
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Internal# |
APAR# |
PMR# / Description |
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Class 3 Certificate Installation
Class 3 Certificates (class 3 secure server CA-G2) are not written properly to "DamlCACerts.pem" file through CertTool.exe Utility. The certificate data is written twice between BEGIN CERTIFICATE and END CERTIFICATE.
Work around: To correct this issue, please follow the below steps and edit “DamlCACerts.pem" file present in “<Adapter installation path>\data" folder.
Step 1. Start the CertTool utility Step 2. Import the class 3 CA certificate by using “F" option from the main menu of CertTool Utility. Step 3. Once the class 3 CA certificate is successfully installed, open “DamlCACerts.pem" file stored in the “<Adapter installed path>\data" folder using text editor. Step 4. Delete the class 3 CA certificate data (i.e. content between BEGIN CERTIFICATE and END CERTIFICATE) from “DamlCACerts.pem". Step 5. Open class 3 CA certificate file using text editor and copy the certificate data (between the BEGIN CERTIFICATE and END CERTIFICATE) Step 6. Paste the certificate data to “DamlCACerts.pem" file between the BEGIN CERTIFICATE and END CERTIFICATE lines of same class 3 CA Certificate. If more than one class 3 certificates are installed then you can identify the certificate using issuer and subject data. Step 7. Save “DamlCACerts.pem" file. Step 8. To verify the “DamlCACerts.pem" file is edited properly, display certificate information by using option “E" from the main menu of CertTool Utility.
Note: Please note that this issue is seen after installing class 3 CA certificate. If you correct the DamlCACerts.pem and then install another class 3 CA certificate, the newly installed class 3 CA certificate will show same issue. This issue is also seen when you delete any certificate using option "G" from the main menu of CertTool utility. The delete option will affect all remaining class 3 CA certificate and you have to follow step 1 to 8 to correct the DamlCACerts.pem file. |
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Event notification is not supported
Adapter may crash in reconciliation operation if event notification is enabled. |
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Issue with Special Characters during Recon Operation:
Reconciliation will fail on IBM Tivoli Identity Manager if an attribute’s value in recon entry contains one or more of the special characters listed in the below table which are not transformed to their equivalent XML format. When ADK reads an attribute’s value it searches for each of the XML transformed value, as listed |
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in below table, in the value string. If it finds any one of these then it considers that entire string is already transformed and will not perform any transformation on that string. In this case ADK does not attempt to check if there are any untransformed special characters in the string. If the value contains other untransformed special characters then they are not transformed by ADK. When IBM Tivoli Identity Manager processes such recon entries they will be failed.
Special Character Equivalent XML transformation & (ampersand) & ' (apostrophe or single quote) ' " (double-quote) " < (less-than) < > (greater-than) >
Workaround:
Modify the attribute value in such a way that either all the special characters in the value are replaced by their corresponding XML transformation or none are.
Example 01: If the value of Description attribute of an user account on Documentum is "My String & END" After reconcile the value displayed on ITIM account form is "My String & END".
This will not cause any error or failure in the recon but the value displayed on IBM Tivoli Identity Manager‟s Account form is not the same as what is on Documentum content server. This is because IBM Tivoli Identity Manager does a reverse transformation to get the original character. In this case & will be replaced with & on IBM Tivoli Identity Manager |
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Editing adapter profiles on UNIX or Linux
The adapter profile JAR file may contain ASCII files created using MS-DOS ASCII format (i.e. schema.dsml, CustomLabels.properties, and service.def). If you edit a MS-DOS ASCII file in Unix you will often see the characters ^M at the end of each line. This is the extra character 0x0d that is used to indicate a new line of text in MS-DOS. There are tools, such as dos2unix, that can be used to strip out the ^M character. In addition, there are text editors that will ignore the ^M character.
If you are using the vi editor, you can strip out the ^M character as follow: From the vi's command mode: :%s/^M//g followed by pressing Enter. The ^M (or Ctrl-M) typed to show it here should actually be entered by pressing ^v^M in sequence. (The ^v preface tells vi to use the next keystroke literally instead of taking it as a command.) |
See the IBM Tivoli Identity Manager Adapter Installation Guide for detailed instructions.
Corrections to Installation Guide
The following corrections to the Installation Guide apply to this release:
Chapter 2: Planning to Install the Adapter, Prerequisites section, Table 3 - Prerequisites to install the adapter. Add a row after the 'Documentum Content Server' row
Documentum
Administrator: If the Documentum server is to be managed remotely, install
the
adapter where the Documentum administrator is installed. To install the
Documentum administrator follow the steps given in the admin guide.
Configuration Notes
The following configuration notes apply to this release:
None
The Identity Manager adapters can be customized and/or extended. The type and method of this customization may vary from adapter to adapter.
Getting Started
Customizing and extending adapters requires a number of additional skills. The developer must be familiar with the following concepts and skills prior to beginning the modifications:
· LDAP schema management
· Working knowledge of scripting language appropriate for the installation platform
· Working knowledge of LDAP object classes and attributes
· Working knowledge of XML document structure
Note: This adapter supports customization only through the use of pre-Exec and post-Exec scripting.
Tivoli Identity Manager Resources:
Check the “Learn" section of the Tivoli Identity Manager Support web site for links to training, publications, and demos.
Support for Customized Adapters
The integration to the Identity Manager server – the adapter framework – is supported. However, IBM does not support the customizations, scripts, or other modifications. If you experience a problem with a customized adapter, IBM Support may require the problem to be demonstrated on the GA version of the adapter before a PMR is opened.
Installation Platform
The IBM Tivoli Identity Manager Adapter was built and tested on the following product versions.
Adapter Installation Platform:
Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition Windows 2008 Enterprise Edition Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition
Managed Resource:
Documentum Content Server 5.3
Documentum Content Server 6.6
Documentum
Content Server 6.7
--with--
Documentum Administrator 5.3
Documentum Administrator 6.6
Documentum Administrator 6.7
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