September 10, 2010

Sailpoint IdentityIQ: Revoke a Policy Violation from Certification

If you had Policy Violations recorded in IdentityIQ and have included them in a Certification then normally it would be displayed as below.


You have only two options. Approve or Delegate. A general option of REVOKE is not provided for a policy violation.

However, there is a option to revoke the same if the certifier wishes to. Of course this is not told and not given. But its a simple change :-)

Open the Policy object and you would see something like below in the first line after XML declaration.

 
Notice the certificationActions tag?
Modify the same to look as below shown. 


Once you add the Remediated word to the tag, your certification automatically shows up the revoke button. Here's a screen shot of how it looks.



Hope this helps.

September 9, 2010

SailPoint Press Releases :: News & Events :: SailPoint Technologies

SailPoint Press Releases :: News & Events :: SailPoint Technologies

SP Identity IQ: Certification not updated to show revocations done

Okay! I am trying to be pretty descriptive here.

Suppose you have created a certification in Sailpoint's Identity IQ.
The Certification Owner has revoked a user and saved the certification. Then the certification header would be something like this.



An email is sent to the administrator to revoke the entitlement/account.
Administrator, being a good employee has done the revocation right away.
A scheduled Account Aggregation, in the next few hours, get kicked off and brings in the new data regarding the revocation.
An Identity refresh scheduled for the same night, updates the entitlements for the users.


Problem:
You still do not notice the update in the Certification header. It still shows a list of items, which were completed, as due.

Solution:
In every Certification configuration there is a parameter named nextRevocationsScantime

This has a default setting which is inherited from a SystemConfiguration setting.

remediationScanInterval set to 86400000 milliseconds

nextRevocationsScantime attribute is created along with remediationsKickedOff="2"

The above attribute is created, once you revoke someone and save the cert.

Later when you remove the entitlements in database and do an account aggregation and identity refresh; it shall not directly reflect in your cert. Once the nextRevocationsScantime is complete and PERFORM MAINTENANCE TASK runs then it scans and completes the process.








Later in the cert you will not see nextRevocationsScantime. Rather you would see this. remediationsCompleted="1" remediationsKickedOff="1"

Hope this helps to few consultants.

September 6, 2010

Attention Sun IdM Customers - "What's Your "Plan B"?


This is what Sailpoint says about SUN Identity Manager, its customers and the solutions they can offer to these customers. Interesting read.

It's always sad to see SUN Technologies dying.

September 1, 2010

epoch conversion tool

What is epoch time?

Short description from Wikipedia:
Unix time, or POSIX time, is a system for describing points in time, defined as the number of seconds elapsed since midnight proleptic Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) of January 1, 1970, not counting leap seconds.

Where do you find with respect to IAM parlance?
I have found that Sailpoint's IdentityIQ uses this convention for all dates. examples are create date, expiration date etc.

So if you want to understand what are the exact dates?

August 24, 2010

An important tip for Sailpoint implementors - Requests Page

I was recently working on integrating Remedy with Sailpoint's IdentityIQ 5.0. Other than getting a weird error in the log I was unable to trace the root cause. One of my colleague tried having a look and suggested I should see in https://localhost:8080/identityiq/monitor/requests/requests.jsf. I could actually see all the items that are queued up there. Here is a screen shot.



It is suggested to have a look at this page when you are trying to debug something and unable to go ahead from the usual check points.

June 30, 2010

Bill Gates advice to the Youth

I came across this article on LinkedIN. Its a good read for everyone. Go ahead, read it from here.

June 3, 2010

Facebook's Sharing feature now on LinkedIn

This is something very good from linkedin. Check out this video; it explains it all. Very good feature.

Match the following: SUN Products get New Names under the Oracle Umbrella

I have read this on Oracle site which was showing the latest names given to all the SUN products. Check it out

March 26, 2010

Sailpoint's IIQ 5.0

Finally, Sailpoint is coming up with its fully geared up Entitlement management software, Identity IQ 5.0. It is going to be released next week. It boasts of many exciting new features like Provisioning, Access Request Manager integration etc. 

Need to wait and watch how the product would be after this release. One quick doubt (may be too early) I have is, are they trying to bring new Provisioning product along? Then why (as there are  already a lot of products available and deployed)?

I have worked on versions from 2.5 to 4.0

March 5, 2010

Password Reset Issues

I regularly read Jackson's Blog and today I found a very interesting post which was talking about a particular presentation in the RSA conference. I recommend everyone to read it. One line I thought should be mentioned here from the presenter's website was ...

It has been estimated that the average cost of a password reset involving a help-desk call is $22

So how much are companies bleeding on password reset calls???

February 18, 2010

How unique is your browser?

I subscribe to Bruce Schneier's Crypto-gram. There was one article on "How unique is your browser?". Read it. 

I have tried it for my browser and the results were as follows.

Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 645,288 tested so far.

Dont forget to read the FAQ section

February 3, 2010

This is how the Chinese are doing Business

I have come across an interesting article on the SANS news mailer. Give it a read.

January 29, 2010

My old team at SUN is no more

I learn't that recently on the first week of January, the whole team of SOA/BI was removed. All the resources were let out in RIF. That was so unfortunate to know. I am sure everyone would find wonderful jobs again.

Also I hope Oracle keeps the wonderful suite of IAM products of SUN going.