Novell IDENTITY MANAGER 3.6.1 User manual

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Identity Manager 3.6.1 Reporting Guide for Novell Sentinel
Identity Manager
3.6.1
January 07, 2010
Reporting Guide for Novell Sentinel ®

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Contents 5
Contents
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About This Guide 7
1Overview 9
1.1 Sentinel Integrated Architecture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2 Configuring Novell Sentinel with Identity Manager 11
3 Installing and Configuring the Identity Manager Collector 13
3.1 Installing the Identity Manager Collector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.2 Configuring the Identity Manager Collector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
4 Installing and Configuring the Novell Audit Connector 17
4.1 Installing the Novell Audit Connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
4.2 Configuring the Novell Audit Connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
5 Installing and Configuring the Platform Agent 21
5.1 Installing the Platform Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
5.2 Configuring the Platform Agent Text File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
6 Securing the Logging System 25
7 Managing Identity Manager Events 27
7.1 Selecting Events to Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
7.1.1 Selecting Events for the User Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
7.1.2 Selecting Events for the Driver Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
7.1.3 Selecting Events for a Specific Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
7.1.4 Identity Manager Log Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
7.2 User-Defined Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
7.2.1 Using Policy Builder to Generate Events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
7.2.2 Using Status Documents to Generate Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
7.3 eDirectory Objects that Store Identity Manager Event Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
8 Using Status Logs 37
8.1 Setting the Log Level and Maximum Log Size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
8.1.1 Setting the Log Level and Log Size for the Driver Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
8.1.2 Setting the Log Level and Log Size for the Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
8.2 Viewing Status Logs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
8.2.1 Accessing the Driver Set Status Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
8.2.2 Accessing the Publisher Channel and Subscriber Channel Status Logs . . . . . . . . . 40

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9 Querying and Reporting 41
A Identity Manager Events 43
A.1 Event Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
A.2 Error and Warning Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
A.3 Job Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
A.4 Remote Loader Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
A.5 Object Events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
A.6 Password Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
A.7 Search List Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
A.8 Engine Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
A.9 Server Events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
A.10 Security Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
A.11 Workflow Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
A.12 Driver Start and Stop Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
A.13 Log Schema Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
A.13.1 How LSC Files Are Used . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

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About This Guide
Welcome to the Identity Manager Integration Guide for Novell Sentinel. This guide provides the
information necessary to integrate Novell®SentinelTM with Identity Manager to provide auditing and
reporting services.
Chapter 1, “Overview,” on page 9
Chapter 2, “Configuring Novell Sentinel with Identity Manager,” on page 11
Chapter 3, “Installing and Configuring the Identity Manager Collector,” on page 13
Chapter 4, “Installing and Configuring the Novell Audit Connector,” on page 17
Chapter 5, “Installing and Configuring the Platform Agent,” on page 21
Chapter 6, “Securing the Logging System,” on page 25
Chapter 7, “Managing Identity Manager Events,” on page 27
Chapter 8, “Using Status Logs,” on page 37
Chapter 9, “Querying and Reporting,” on page 41
Appendix A, “Identity Manager Events,” on page 43
Audience
This guide is intended for network administrators.
Feedback
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included with this product. Please use the User Comments feature at the bottom of each page of the
online documentation, or go to www.novell.com/documentation/feedback.html and enter your
comments there.
Documentation Updates
For the most recent version of the Identity Manager 3.6.1 Integration Guide for Novell Sentinel,
visit the Identity Manager Documentation Web site (http://www.novell.com/documentation/idm36/
).
Additional Documentation
For the current Sentinel documentation, see the Sentinel Documentation Web site (http://
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Overview
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1
Overview
Adding Novell SentinelTM to your Identity Manager solution provides a reporting services. By
adding reporting, you can demonstrate that the business policies are enforced within your Identity
Manager solution. This is the last component to add to your Identity Manager solution.
1.1 Sentinel Integrated Architecture
Sentinel is a security information management and compliance monitoring solution that monitors,
responds to, and reports on security and compliance events. Sentinel easily integrates with Novell
Identity Manager so you get automated, real-time security management and compliance monitoring
across all systems and networks. The Sentinel-Identity Manager framework provides automatic
documenting and reporting of security, systems, and access events across the enterprise; built-in
incident management and remediation; and the ability to demonstrate and monitor compliance with
internal policies and government regulations.
The following diagram illustrates the Identity Manager logging and reporting architecture when
integrated with Sentinel.
Figure 1-1 Identity Manager and Sentinel Integrated Architecture
1. An Identity Manager event occurs and it is sent to the Platform Agent. To capture all Identity
Manager events, the Platform Agent must be installed and configured on each Identity Manager
server.
Collector
Collector
Sentinel
Control Center
Identity
Manager
Platform
Agent
Events
Cache
When disconnected
from the Event
Source Server
When reconnected
to the Event
Source Server
Crystal
Reports
Data Store
Port 289
Audit
Queue
Event Source Server
Port 9099
Novell
Audit
Connector
Identity
Manager
Collector
Collector
Manager

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2. (Conditional) If the Platform Agent cannot connect to the Event Source Server, the events are
stored in cache until the connection is reestablished.
3. The Platform Agent sends the events to the Event Source Sever, which stores the events in the
audit queue.
4. The events in the audit queue are sent to the Novell Audit Connector.
5. The Novell Audit Connector sends the events to the Identity Manager Collector, which parses
the information and then stores the parsed events in the data store.
6. The stored events are displayed through Crystal Reports*.
For a thorough discussion of the Sentinel architecture, see “Appendix A Sentinel Architecture” in
the Novell Sentinel User’s Guide (http://www.novell.com/documentation/sentinel61/pdfdoc/
sentinel_61_user_guide.pdf).