1.3 Extension for SAP Environments Components

The extension for SAP environments is not a single product, but consists of multiple products and solutions.

The extension for SAP environments uses the different components to solve business problems. The following figure shows how the different components work together.

Figure 1-1 Components of the extension for SAP environments

The different components of the extension for SAP environments are:

Identity Manager Driver for SAP Business Logic: The SAP Business Logic driver processes the business logic in your SAP environment. It is used with SAP HR driver to provision users in SAP HR systems that have an organizational management structure instead of a flat file structure.

For additional information about the SAP Business Logic driver, see the Identity Manager Driver for SAP Business Logic Implementation Guide.

Identity Manager Driver for SAP GRC Access Control: The SAP GRC Access Control driver provisions users from the GRC Access Control into the Identity Vault. If you have other SAP drivers configured, they can pick up accounts from GRC Access Control to populate the other SAP systems.

For more information about the SAP GRC Access Control driver, see the Identity Manager Driver for SAP GRC Access Control Implementation Guide

Identity Manager Driver for SAP HR: The SAP HR driver creates HR records in the SAP ERP systems. If you have an organizational management structure in the ERP system, you must use the SAP Business Logic driver with the SAP HR driver to manage this configuration.

For information about the SAP HR driver, see the Identity Manager Driver for SAP HR Implementation Guide.

Identity Manager Driver for SAP Portal: The SAP Portal driver provisions users to the SAP NetWeaver* Application Server.

For more information, see the Identity Manager Driver for SAP Portal Implementation Guide.

Identity Manager Driver for SAP User Management: The SAP User Management driver provisions users to SAP CUA and R/3 systems. The SAP User Management driver has fan-out capabilities that let you set up and configure one driver to manage multiple SAP clients.

For information about the SAP User Management driver, see the Identity Manager Driver for SAP User Management Implementation Guide.

Identity Manager Role Mapping Administrator: The Role Mapping Administrator is a Web application that lets you map roles, composite roles, and profiles (collectively referred to as authorizations) to Identity Manager roles.

For more information about the Role Mapping Administrator, see the Identity Manager Role Mapping Administration Installation and Configuration Guide.

Sentinel Collector for SAP CCMS: The SAP CCMS Collector, which is a SAP Certified product, parses the data from SAP systems into Sentinel™ so that you can use the Solution Pack for SAP to generate reports and set up alerts.

For more information about the Sentinel Collector for SAP CCMS, see the Sentinel Content Web site and the Novell Compliance Management Platform extension for SAP environments Solutions Guide.

Sentinel Connector for SAP XAL: The SAP XAL Connector facilitates the connectivity between the SAP CCMS Collector and the SAP systems.

For more information about the Sentinel Connector for SAP XAL, see the Sentinel Content Web site and the Novell Compliance Management Platform extension for SAP environments Solutions Guide.

Sentinel Solution Pack for SAP: The Solution Pack for SAP provides controls (views and reports) of events associated with users in your SAP system. Through these controls, you can monitor and report on account management activities (creation, deletion, and modification); suspicious user activities such as failed authentication, denied access, denied or increased account privileges, and impersonated account logins; account usage by users; and password management activities. Because of the identity injection provided by the Sentinel driver and Identity Vault collector, events are associated to individual users.

For more information about the Sentinel Solution Pack, see the Sentinel Content Web site and the Novell Compliance Management Platform extension for SAP environments Solutions Guide.

SAP Business Solutions: The extension for SAP environments includes documentation for solutions that address common business problems by using the components of the extension for SAP environments.

For information about the SAP Business Solutions, see the Novell Compliance Management Platform extension for SAP environments Solutions Guide.