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IDM 4.9 released

Geoffrey Carman
 

Looks like it is out!  Available in SLD as a new item in the third row as 4.9


List of featues I heard are:

  • Support for "Microsoft Modern Authentication" - Introduces support for OAuth2 authentication specifically tailored for email accounts within Office 365.
  • Cumulative Full Installer
  • Form Renderer Updates - Revamped form renderer with updated libraries for flexible data entry.
  • ACDI – Monitoring ( Audit, Compliance and Data Intelligence ) 
  • User application Monitoring Improvements - Real-time insights via CN = Monitor for improved user application monitoring.
  • IDM Containers (OT UBI, AWS, Azure)
  • Azure AD Driver performance and scalability

Seems like some interesting changes.

I see the DTD for DirXML Script got updated with two new lines:

www.netiq.com/.../

Changes in 4.9

Rats, do I need to update my book again?  :)  I think I will wait for some bigger changes before making a new edition.

What else have you guys found new in 4.9?

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    Some more feedback from my IDM User Group session (Email me to get added) today... There is an MF User Group session coming up next week I am sure it will be good as well.

    Java 11 for everything but Designer/Analyzer. (Still Java 8 due to older Eclipse build still). Validator updates did not make it for the 4.9 release so when they are ready it will be moving to JAva 11 as well.


    The changes in cn=monitor look like they are big ones.  Should be really nice to have. If you use the ACDI Workflow packages, then you will get even more Workflow info in ACDI reports.

    Direct upgrade in place from 4.7.5 and all of the 4.8 builds to 4.9 which is nice.

    The form renderer in Forms is basically same rev as in IGA, but with some differences.

    ACDI looks pretty useful.   SkyPro has been building this for maybe a decade now, and is very powerful. The most interesting options are Time Machine, and object histories.  The ability to see all the changes made to a user over their lifecycle. Or to hunt down when a particular change was made and by whom is nice. 

    You can export the state of an object at any time as LDIF, which basically means you can restore an object to any time point.

    Looks really good. 

    The included free ACDI Basic does not include all the reports not Time Machine, so you will likely want to buy the Pro version.

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    Some more feedback from my IDM User Group session (Email me to get added) today... There is an MF User Group session coming up next week I am sure it will be good as well.

    Java 11 for everything but Designer/Analyzer. (Still Java 8 due to older Eclipse build still). Validator updates did not make it for the 4.9 release so when they are ready it will be moving to JAva 11 as well.


    The changes in cn=monitor look like they are big ones.  Should be really nice to have. If you use the ACDI Workflow packages, then you will get even more Workflow info in ACDI reports.

    Direct upgrade in place from 4.7.5 and all of the 4.8 builds to 4.9 which is nice.

    The form renderer in Forms is basically same rev as in IGA, but with some differences.

    ACDI looks pretty useful.   SkyPro has been building this for maybe a decade now, and is very powerful. The most interesting options are Time Machine, and object histories.  The ability to see all the changes made to a user over their lifecycle. Or to hunt down when a particular change was made and by whom is nice. 

    You can export the state of an object at any time as LDIF, which basically means you can restore an object to any time point.

    Looks really good. 

    The included free ACDI Basic does not include all the reports not Time Machine, so you will likely want to buy the Pro version.

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    Can we interpret the lack of love/attention for modernizing Designer / Analyzer as a firmer confirmation that they are on the way out?
    Or was it just that switching underlying layer to a newer Eclipse base is seemingly a huge amount of work.

    A while back I feel the talk was that they wanted to duplicate some bits of Designer as web based apps so they could be cloud friendly, but that there was no end of life for Designer yet on the cards.

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    Best thing though there is no official support for running designer on the RHEL 8.8 and 8.9 platforms. Where we as a company are forced to run RHEL 8.9 for our applications. I don't understand the lack of support here at all. The other products mentioned not being available on RHEL 8.8 and 8.9 are not of my interest.
    And yes designer is a java application requiring OS support, but running both in a production envionment will lack proper support.

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