Release notes - IBM® Tivoli® Identity Manager LDAP Adapter 5.1.14
IBM Tivoli Identity Manager LDAP Adapter 5.1.14 is available. Compatibility, installation, and other getting-started issues are addressed.
Contents
Installation and Configuration Notes
Customizing or Extending Adapter Features
These Release Notes contain information for the following products that was not available when the IBM Tivoli Identity Manager manuals were printed:
· Directory Integrator-based LDAP Adapter Installation and Configuration Guide
The LDAP Adapter is designed to create and manage LDAP accounts. The adapter runs in agentless mode and is preconfigured to manage the iNetOrgPerson schema on Tivoli Directory Server and Oracle Directory Servers, but can be configured to manage other directories. The LDAP Customization White Paper, packaged with this adapter, contains information about customizing the LDAP adapter.
This adapter (and the prerequisite Tivoli Directory Integrator) should be installed on each node of an IBM Tivoli Identity Manager WebSphere cluster. A single copy of the adapter can handle multiple IBM Tivoli Identity Manager services. The deployment configuration is based, in part, on the topology of your network domain, but the primary factor is the planned structure of your IBM Tivoli Identity Manager Provisioning Policies and Approval Workflow process. Please refer to IBM Tivoli Identity Manager Information Center for a discussion of these topics.
IBM Tivoli 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 IBM Tivoli 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.
The ability to manage service groups is a new feature introduced in IBM Tivoli Identity Manager v5.1. A service group refers to any logical entity that can group accounts together on the managed resource. In the case of LDAP adapter, the service group is an LDAP group.
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 IBM Tivoli Identity Manager v5.1 release.
The LDAP adapter supports service groups management.
Contents of this Release
Adapter Version
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Release Date |
2016 December 06 02.48.10 |
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Adapter Version |
5.1.14 |
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Component Versions |
Adapter build: 5.1.14.67 Profile: 5.1.14.67 Connector: N/A (uses the LDAP connector from Tivoli Directory Integrator) Dispatcher: 5.725 (TDI 7.0 with FP 3 or higher, packaged separately) Dispatcher: 5.125 (TDI 6.1.1 with FP 9 or higher, packaged separately) |
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Documentation |
· Directory Integrator-Based LDAP Adapter Installation and Configuration Guide SC23-9632-00
Guides packaged with the LDAP Adapter:
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New Features
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Enhancement # (FITS) |
Description |
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Items included in 5.1.14 release |
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None |
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Items included in 5.1.13 release |
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None |
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Items included in 5.1.12 release |
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Support for Oracle Directory Server Version 11.1.1.7.0 |
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Items included in 5.1.10 release |
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None |
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Items included in 5.1.9 release |
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RFE 18666 |
LDAP Adapter certified to work with IBM Tivoli Directory Server v6.3 |
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Items included in 5.1.7 release |
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None |
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Items included in 5.1.6 release |
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None |
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Items included in 5.1.5 release |
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N/A |
Removal of Unnecessary comments and commented code
This version of the adapter does not include the commented code in the Adapter AL's. Also unnecessary comments have been removed from the AL's of the LDAP Adapter.
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Items included in 5.1.4 release |
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MR052109192 |
Configurable support for directory server pwdReset attribute
(See additional detail under MR052109192 in the Configuration Notes section of this document.)
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MR121809696 |
Provide a Rename Utility that runs on Unix.
Profile Rename utility packaged with LDAP Adapter is enhanced to work on Unix Operating Systems also. A new script (LdapProfile-rename.sh) file has been packaged with Profile Rename Utility should be used to run the utility on Unix Systems. Steps to run the utility on Unix Systems are mentioned in "ProfileRename-README.txt"packaged with LDAP adapter.
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MR1210082329 |
LDAP Adapter is certified to work with IBM Tivoli Directory Server v6.2.
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N/A |
Verify the ProfileRename utility with Tivoli Identity Manager 5.1 Profile.
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Items included in 5.1.3 release |
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None |
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Items included in 5.1.2 release |
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MR1007084315 |
Adapter should return warning instead of error when restoring already active user.
For more information, see Status Codes on Suspend and Restore Functions in the Configuration section of this document.
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N/A |
Internal Enhancements: · Add page size option on service form · Add group class name on service form · Fix rename profile utility to change object class names in ALs. · Remove Commented out code from ALs.
For more information, see the Configuration section of this document
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Items included in 5.1.1 release |
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Initial release for Tivoli Identity Manager v5.1
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Closed Issues
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Internal# |
APAR# |
PMR# / Description |
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Items included in 5.1.14 release |
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RTC 153471-Bug2197 |
IV91082/ PMR 82554,033,724 |
RMI Dispatcher throwing ServiceUnavailableException (socket closed) |
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Items included in 5.1.13 release |
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IV67841 |
Parenthesis in account dn values are not handled properly |
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Items included in 5.1.12 release |
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None |
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Items included in 5.1.10 release |
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None |
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Items included in 5.1.9 release |
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None |
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Items included in 5.1.7 release |
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IV02072 |
Missing info about return attributes in LDAP Adapter Configuration Guide
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IV25192 |
PMR 15134,057,649 Questions concerning profile rename and associated procedures for customizing LDAP adapter |
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IV23139 |
eruid with left paren can't be reconned
Customer can now manage account with eruid having left parenthesis, for e.g. eruid=user(01
Note: The fix only works for accounts already existing/requested from Tivoli Identity Manager. If an account with eruid having left parenthesis is created on resource, it will not be reconciled. |
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N/A |
Adapter gives error during add when group does not exist
We have done changes to Add AL, to return warning and set error on the group attribute.
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Items included in 5.1.6 release |
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IV13792 |
LDAP Adapter fails when user’s CN includes a comma.
Customer can now add User ID having comma in the value for example User ID = abc,xyz
NOTE: This fix slightly changes the behavior of adapter. Carefully test compatibility with your custom LDAP adapters.
(See additional detail under APAR IV13792 in the Configuration Notes section of this document.)
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Items included in 5.1.5 release |
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None |
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Items included in 5.1.4 release |
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IZ77422 |
PMR 83862,7TD,000 Not able to use CN as ldapUserRDN.
Adapter was not returning the value of CN attribute to ITIM when there is only one value for CN on the resource and CN has been used as User RDN attribute on Service Form. Reconciliation request was not able to complete successfully because ITIM was not able to store the user entry in LDAP as CN is a required attribute in account class on ITIM side. This defect has been fixed in this release.
NOTE: This fix slightly changes the behavior of adapter. Carefully test compatibility with your custom LDAP adapters.
(See additional detail under APAR IZ77422 in the Configuration Notes section of this document.)
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Items included in 5.1.3 release |
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36848 |
N/A |
N/A TDI LDAP Adapter - changes to attribute mapping logic so that it is easier to customize the adapter.
In previously released LDAP adapter if user wants to customized adapter say adding the support for one more attribute in objectclass, user needs to add that attribute in attribute map of AL and then have appropriate mapping i.e advance or direct mapping.
For this reason we have done changes in attribute mapping in this release .Now from this release of LDAP adapter if the user wants to support one attribute of objectclass having direct mapping then there is no need of adding that attribute in attribute map of AL, this has been taken care by including '*' in the attribute map of Add,Modify,Search AL. The '*' here means whatever the attributes and their value are there in one entry will get copied/cloned, as it is, in the other entry.
For Example, Say it is a search AL and mapping is Input Map (CONN -> WORK mapping), and we have used * in mapping, ITDI will take all the attributes from CONN entry and create corresponding attributes with the same name in Work entry. Suppose we have 2 attributes in CONN entry (cn and sn) and we put * in mapping, it will create cn and sn in WORK entry with respective values.
Note: User needs to add the attribute to Attribute map of AL if it has advanced mapping i.e some extra processing is required for that attribute.
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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 |
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Known Issues
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Internal# |
APAR# |
PMR# / Description |
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None |
Installation and Configuration Notes
See the IBM Tivoli Identity Manager LDAP Adapter Installation Guide for detailed instructions.
Corrections to Installation Guide
The following corrections to the Installation Guide apply to this release:
None
Configuration Notes
The following corrections configuration notes apply to this release:
None
Customizing or Extending Adapter Features
IBM Tivoli 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:
· IBM Tivoli Identity Manager administration
· Tivoli Directory Integrator management
· Tivoli Directory Integrator Assembly Line development
· LDAP schema management
· Working knowledge of Java scripting language
· Working knowledge of LDAP object classes and attributes
· Working knowledge of XML document structure
Note: If the customization requires a new Tivoli Directory Integrator connector, the developer must also be familiar with Tivoli Directory Integrator connector development and working knowledge of Java programming language.
IBM Tivoli Identity Manager Resources:
Check the Learn section of the Tivoli Identity Manager Support web site for links to training, publications, and demos.
Tivoli Directory Integrator Resources:
Check the Learn section of the Tivoli Directory Integrator Support web site for links to training, publications, and demos.
IBM Tivoli Identity Manager Adapter Development:
Adapter Development Tool
The Adapter Development Tool, ADT, is a tool used by IBM Tivoli Identity Manager (ITIM) customers and consultants to create custom TIM adapters. It reduces adapter delivery time by about 50% and it helps in the development of custom adapters. The Adapter development tool is available on the IBM Open Process Automation Library (OPAL).
Support for Customized Adapters
The integration to the IBM Tivoli 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 LDAP Adapter was built and tested on the following product versions.
This adapter installs into Tivoli Directory Integrator (TDI) and may be installed on any platform supported by the TDI product and supported by the target system libraries or client, where applicable. IBM recommends installing TDI on each node of the ITIM WAS Cluster and then installing this adapter on each instance of TDI.
Adapter Installation Platform:
IBM Tivoli Directory
Integrator 7.1 with Fix Pack 5 or higher
IBM Tivoli
Directory Integrator 7.1.1 with FP2 or higher
Managed Resource:
IBM Directory Server version 6.1, 6.2, and 6.3
Oracle Directory Server Version 11.1.1.7.0
Other directories that comply with RFC2798 standards and are supported by the Tivoli Directory Integrator LDAP connector. However, you might require additional customization. See the LDAP Adapter Customization Guide for information on customizing this adapter.
IBM Tivoli Identity Manager:
IBM Tivoli Identity Manager v5.1
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