The following sections provide information about how the SAP User Management Fan-Out driver supports standard driver features:
The SAP User Management Fan-Out driver can be installed on the same operating systems supported by the Metadirectory server and JCo 3. For information, see Metadirectory Server
in System Requirements
in the Identity Manager 3.6.1 Installation Guide.
If you don’t want to install the Metadirectory engine and Identity Vault (eDirectory™) on the SAP server, you can use the Remote Loader service to run the driver on the SAP server, and have the Metadirectory engine and Identity Vault on another server.
The SAP User Management Fan-Out driver can be installed on the same operating systems supported by the Remote Loader and JCo 3. For information, see Configuring the Remote Loader
in the Identity Manager 3.6.1 Remote Loader Guide.
Entitlements are a way to set up a list of criteria to grant or revoke users, roles, and groups access to resources. The SAP User Management Fan-Out driver contains preconfigured entitlements. For more information, see Section 8.0, Implementing the Preconfigured Entitlements.
The SAP User Management Fan-Out driver supports setting passwords in the SAP system. You can configure the driver to automatically assign passwords to users when they are provisioned to the SAP systems and child systems. For configuration information, see Managing Passwords
in the Novell Compliance Management Platform Extension for SAP Environments 1.0 SP1 Solutions Guide.
Account Tracking allows you to manage all of the identities each user account has in each system connected to the Identity Vault. Account Tracking is a feature included with the Novell® Compliance Management Platform. For more information, see the Novell Compliance Management Platform Web site.
The SAP User Management Fan-Out driver can be configured to work with the Identity Manager Role Mapping Administrator, which is a tool that allows you to map business roles to IT roles. The Role Mapping Administrator is included with the Novell Compliance Management Platform extension for SAP environments. For more information, see the Novell Compliance Management Platform extension for SAP environments Web site.