All Articles on Identity and Access Management

How to Create Approval Tasks in SAP NetWeaver Identity Management 7.1 SAP How-to Guide(PDF 930 KB)

This Guide is based upon the document SAP NetWeaver Identity Management Identity Center - Implementing Role Approvals. This Guide takes the use case from that guide – the owner of a role should approve any assignments to the role, whether the role is given directly, or inherited through the role hierarchy – and extends it to include further example configurations such as manager approval, role owner approval, multi-step approval, and others.20 Nov 2009

SAP NW Identity Management Identity Center: Implementing and configuring the template for Microsoft Exchange 2007 Article(PDF 137 KB)

This document describes how to implement and configure the template task CreateExchange2007User in the Identity Center, in order to be able to use the Provisioning Framework for SAP Systems to create and mail-enable users in MS Exchange 2007.
Download the related file: CreateExchange2007User.mcc (ZIP 9 KB)15 Nov 2009

User Management and Distribution with SAP NetWeaver Identity Management 7.1 Article(PDF 212 KB)

Temporary documentation from SAP Help Portal: "SAP NetWeaver Identity Management 7.1 - SAP Business Suite Integration Scenarios".15 Nov 2009

Missing Authorization Assistance - ZSU53 Article(PDF 740 KB)

This tool was developed to simplify the process of finding the appropriate profiles/roles for users to get the job done! Just execute this program and it will list all the profiles/roles which contain the missing (last failed) authorization! Assign any identified profile/role found to the user to get going with the work...05 Nov 2009

Enable Governance and Security Across Your Business Processes Article(PDF 505 KB)

SOA governance can be a daunting topic, but it is critical to the success of your SOA initiatives. The article presents a solid framework of ideas and actions to consider as you secure your business processes and properly govern your SOA activities.01 Nov 2009

Developer Guide: Extending the Provisioning Framework for SAP Systems Article(PDF 2 MB)

When using the provisioning framework for SAP systems with SAP NetWeaver Identity Management, you may need to extend the capabilities to meet your own needs. For example, you may want to provision additional attributes, or you may want to trigger specific events when an identity is created or modified. This developer guide describes how to extend the provisioning framework for ABAP-based SAP systems by using Business Add-Ins (BAdIs).27 Oct 2009

SAP NetWeaver Identity Management Identity Center - Implementing Role Approvals Article(PDF 650 KB)

This document describes how you can implement approvals for pending role assignments.13 Oct 2009

How to Setting Up an Identity Management Dispatcher on a UNIX Host Flavor SAP How-to Guide(PDF 438 KB)

If you want to get your hand on running SAP NetWeaver Identity Management Dispatcher on another operating system such as an UNIX host. This guide will give you a step-by-step instruction on how to achieve this goal with ease, and give you some pointer during the installation so that you can avoid some issues further down the line. Also, it will show some common error types that you may encounter and help you trouble-shoot for the result.01 Oct 2009

SAP NetWeaver Identity Management Identity Center 7.1: Identity Store Schema (Technical Reference) Article(PDF 425 KB)

This document describes entry types and attributes in the Identity Center 7.1.25 Sep 2009

GRC Access Control Interface for Identity Management (GRC-AC-IDM) Certification Test Plan Article(PDF 59 KB)

This document describes the certification procedure for SAP GRC Access Control Interface for Identity Management (GRC-AC-IDM).17 Sep 2009

How to Create Reports with SAP NetWeaver Identity Management SAP How-to Guide(PDF 3 MB)

During the implementation of SAP NetWeaver Identity Management typically reporting requirements need to be satisfied. This guide will first give you some background information about creating reports based on the data available in SAP NetWeaver Identity Management. Furthermore, it will show you how you can create a simple report using SAP Busines Objects Crystal Reports (available as of Version 7.1 SP2) and also Jasper Reports (available also in Version 7.0).01 Sep 2009

SAP NetWeaver Identity Management Identity Center Implementation Guide: Staging Environment Article(PDF 362 KB)

The manual contains a tutorial consisting of sections describing the issues that need to be considered when implementing an Identity Center configuration that should be prepared for a staging environment.01 Sep 2009

SAML SSO Configuration on AS Java Article(PDF 553 KB)

This article provides the configuration steps in Visual Admin while configuring SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) for SSO (Single-Sign-On) on SAP AS Java. This is a scenario where SSO is required from an external system to SAP AS Java. The basic SAML steps in this article have been referred from the article “Configuring Single Sign-On for SAP NetWeaver Application Server Java with IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager using SAML 1.0” by the author Peter Tuton. I would like to thank the author for the well written article on the same. The main purpose of this article is to demonstrate the screen shots of Visual Admin involved in the SAML configuration.17 Aug 2009

SAP NetWeaver Identity Management: Compliant Provisioning Using GRC Access Control - Architectural Overview Article(PDF 134 KB)

This document gives an overview over how GRC Access Control can be used for compliant provisioning from SAP NetWeaver Identity Management.16 Jul 2009

SAP NetWeaver Identity Management: Compliant Provisioning using GRC Access Control Configuration Guide Article(PDF 443 KB)

This document describes how you implement compliant provisioning from SAP NetWeaver Identity Management using GRC Access Control15 Jul 2009

Identity Management That's Integrated into Your Current Business Processes Article(PDF 561 KB)

Previous SAP Insider articles have introduced and explained the identity management solutions capabilities for SAP NetWeaver Identity Management. Here we look beyond this centralized administration functionality and see how identity management functionality can now be a connected, integrated part of your existing business processes.01 Jul 2009

Integration of SAP Netweaver User Management with LDAP Article(PDF 304 KB)

The document explains the detailed procedure of configuring the SAP Netweaver User Management with LDAP to use LDAP as a Data Source. The LDAP is a cnetral directory where the user information is stored centrally. When integrated with SAP Netweaver to use LDAP as a datasource, the user information is imported from the LDAP to the local system database. This reduces the data inconsistency and redundancy and also reduces the total cost of ownership.01 Jul 2009

SAP Identity Management 7.0 SP2 Installation and Initial Configuration Article(PDF 137 KB)

This article aims to describe the complete procedure for installing the SAP NetWeaver Identity Management components on Microsoft SQL Server 2005 with all components of the Identity Center and the Virtual Directory Server installed on a single system.24 Jun 2009

SAP NetWeaver Identity Management Identity Center: Provisioning Framework for Lotus Notes Configuration Guide Article(PDF 1 MB)

Using the provisioning framework for Lotus Notes makes it possible for the SAP NetWeaver Identity Management to provision users and groups to Lotus Notes and Domino server. This is done by implementing a provisioning solution based on templates in the Identity Center. The solution integrates with the provisioning framework for SAP systems.19 Jun 2009

SAP NetWeaver Identity Management: IDM Connector Overview Presentation(PDF 2 MB)

Management. It describes in detail the various connectors available and presents the IDM Connector Development Kit for non-SAP applications19 Jun 2009

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