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Ajax in a network: Security and topology challenges of aggregating content from multiple sites
in an Ajax architecture
There can be challenges when introducing Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
(Ajax) programming techniques into a network environment. This article looks
at security and topology scenarios that you might be trying to solve when
creating Ajax style architectures that aggregate content from multiple sites.
This article explores these scenarios using the IBM Tivoli Access Manager
WebSEAL product in conjunction with the IBM WebSphere Application Server
Feature Pack for Web 2.0 for developing Ajax style architectures for WebSphere
Application Server.
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30 Sep 2009 |
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IBM Tivoli Data and Application Security
Learn about IBM Tivoli Data and Application Security, a browser to disk
security solution that helps you protect the integrity and confidentiality of
organizational data and transactions. IBM Tivoli Data and Application Security protects sensitive data and applications via auditable
access controls, fine-grained entitlements and encryption key management. It provides end-to-end protection of sensitive data in enterprise storage and within
critical applications to support regulatory compliance initiatives, improve
business agility and reliability and reduce costs.
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28 Sep 2009 |
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IBM Tivoli Security Management for z/OS
Learn about IBM Tivoli Security Management for z/OS, a comprehensive security solution that can help you automate
compliance reporting, enhance security posture to reduce risks, improve business agility and reliability, reduce costs,
increase productivity and develop operational efficiencies for your dynamic infrastructure. The Tivoli Security Management for z/OS
solution enhances and accelerates mainframe security management with simplified security administration, efficient user management,
security policy enforcement, and automated audit and compliance reporting for z/OS RACF.
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28 Sep 2009 |
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IBM Global Security Kit, Version 7 - PKCS#11 Device Integration
This article describes the hardware cryptographic devices that support the PKCS#11 standard and have been tested for use with IBM Global Security Toolkit (GSKit), Version 7.
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01 May 2009 |
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Understand IBM InfoSphere MDM Server Security, Part 5: Integrating Master Data Management Server with Tivoli Federated Identity Manager
This article builds on Part 4 of this series, “Using SAML in MDM Server
Security.”
It shows how the integration of IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management
(MDM) Server and IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager (TFIM) can extend MDM
Server’s identity propagation capabilities and facilitate client application development.
Learn how to use and configure these components to solve real-world business problems.
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26 Feb 2009 |
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Single sign on to a IBM WebSphere Portal through IBM Tivoli Access Manager WebSEAL
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gain from reading the content (benefits).
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18 Feb 2009 |
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Using Tivoli Access Manager for eBusiness WebSEAL without a user registry
Often customers require a web single sign-on and authorization solution but are unable or unwilling to replace or synchronize their existing user registry with another. This can pose a problem for customers wishing to leverage Tivoli Access Manager for eBusiness (TAMeB) where their existing user registry is not supported natively by TAMeB. This article will demonstrate how to utilize Tivoli Access Manager for eBusiness WebSEAL without requiring the enterprise users to be in the TAMeB directory. This article requires some prior knowledge of Tivoli Access Manager for eBusiness authentication, the TAMeB external authentication interface (EAI), and the Tivoli Federated Identity Manager (TFIM) Security Token Service (STS).
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03 Feb 2009 |
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Tivoli Access Manager and Rational AppScan
Managing security is a critical part of building and maintaining a modern IT infrastructure. IBM offers several complementary offerings in Security Governance, Risk Management and Compliance to help clients manage the security of their complex IT environments. IBM Tivoli Access Manager for e-Business is a market leading software solution in IBM's Identity and Access Management portfolio for managing enterprise web based authentication, authorization and single sign-on. IBM now offers a market leading web application security scanner software offering called IBM Rational AppScan. This article will compare and contrast the two offerings as they relate to IBM's security operations strategy and examine what security benefits each brings to the enterprise environment. A number of scenarios will be presented to highlight the roles of each of the software solutions and how they complement each others capabilities.
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03 Feb 2009 |
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Using Tivoli Access Manager Enterprise Single Sign-on with IBM middleware
IBM Tivoli Access Manager Enterprise Enterprise Single Sign-on (TAM E-SSO) provides cross application (that is, Web, Java , mainframe or terminal services) single sign-on capabilities. The TAM E-SSO AccessAgent and IMS server are supported on Microsoft Windows operating system platforms, and typically leverage Active Directory for user management. However, many customers want to leverage their existing investment in IBM middleware products, and also extend the reach for TAM E-SSO beyond their intranet. This article shows how TAM E-SSO can be deployed into an environment consisting of IBM middleware, namely DB2 and IBM Tivoli Directory Server.
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28 Jan 2009 |
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Integrating Tivoli Directory Integrator and Lotus Connections
Reporting operational status of an IT system can be a difficult task. Collecting the required information is often time consuming, and finding a suitable delivery mechanism for multiple interested parties can be a challenge. This article discusses an effective mechanism for reporting operational status of an IT system using a Web 2.0 approach with IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator and Lotus Connections.
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28 Jan 2009 |
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IBM Tivoli Directory Server - SMS to DMS migration
This article contains the results of performance tests on IBM Tivoli Directory Server (ITDS) running on SMS and DMS during DB2 online backup, recommendations based on the results as well as the steps required
for migrating ITDS from SMS to DMS.
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19 Jan 2009 |
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IBM Tivoli Access Manager: WebSEAL Kerberos Junctions
To successfully enable a single-sign-on from WebSEAL to a Kerberos enabled Web Server, a number of interlocking components need to be configured correctly. The configuration of this environment is complex and requires careful planning and execution. This article highlights the steps necessary to configure a typical environment for WebSEAL Kerberos junctions, and provides tips for testing and debugging configuration components.
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18 Dec 2008 |
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IBM SOA Foundation product integration: A complete ESB Gateway solution featuring WebSphere DataPower, Tivoli Access
Manager, and WebSphere Service Registry and Repository
Leveraging the concept of a service-oriented architecture usually brings
with it the ability to connect an increasing number of systems within an enterprise
-- but also across enterprises. While enabling a higher degree of automation and
reduced processing time, this also leads to growing concern about managing and
securing the underlying connections between heterogeneous IT systems. This article
describes how to address these concerns by implementing an ESB gateway using three
of the products within the IBM SOA Foundation platform, beginning with integrating
a IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliance with IBM Tivoli Access Manager for security,
and then adding IBM WebSphere Service Registry and Repository for endpoint address
management.
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10 Dec 2008 |
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Tivoli Directory Proxy Server in Tivoli Identity Manager environment: Setup and Configure IBM Tivoli Directory Server 6.1 Proxy Server in IBM Tivoli Identity Manager 5.0 environment for high availability
IBM Tivoli Identity Manager requires an LDAP directory server to store essential data such as users, accounts, and policies. As a result, it is an extremely critical component in Tivoli Identity Manager based Solution design. IBM Tivoli Identity Manager can use Tivoli Directory Server and Sun One as its LDAP Directory servers. In this Article we will focus on using Tivoli Directory Server as IBM Tivoli Identity Manager's LDAP. This article addresses aspects of a High Availability and Load Balancing solution design for Identity Manager Directory Server component using Tivoli Directory Server Proxy Server.
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24 Nov 2008 |
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Using IBM Tivoli Directory to deploy LDAP with Websphere Community Edition
Learn how to implement user authentication and authorization for WebSphere
Application Server Community Edition, using IBM Tivoli Directory Server to configure an LDAP realm.
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20 Nov 2008 |
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Approaches for solving problems with Tivoli Directory Server synchronization
An enterprise directory server is a critical piece of IT infrastructure.
It is important that the directory server infrastructure be highly available, scalable and
reliable. To achieve this, a directory server replication topology is often used to
replicate the directory data across several directory servers. This article will outline
the difficulties that can be encountered when managing a replicated directory
infrastructure. The article will also highlight some common replication scenarios, and problems that are
commonly encountered when troubleshooting and correcting these issues and some techniques
to help solve directory replication issues.
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12 Nov 2008 |
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Adding custom XML extensions to SAML 2.0 request messages
IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager 6.2 (TFIM) has extended existing support of the SAML 2.0 federated single sign-on protocol to include the ability to supply custom XML elements as part SAML requests or responses. This capability is exposed by way of an Open Services Gateway Initiative (OSGi) plug-in extension to the Tivoli Federated Identity Manager runtime. This article will outline how to use this extension point including sample Java code and instructions for deployment and testing.
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28 Oct 2008 |
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Auditing Tivoli Identity Manager with Tivoli Compliance Insight Manager
IBM Tivoli Identity Manager (TIM) is a provisioning platform that centralizes and automates the lifecycle management of user's access rights on various end systems. TIM administrative users can provision identities to many different systems, such as operating systems, data stores and other applications. By auditing TIM, we can monitor activities performed by these administrative users and report any violations involved in the user management activities. The IBM Tivoli Compliance Insight Manager (TCIM) provides a unique and comprehensive view into the user management activities of TIM. Using TCIM we can collect all data from the TIM logs, store them, normalize the data using W7 process to comprehend what was collected and report all exceptions based on the TCIM policies.This article demonstrates the auditing of TIM with TCIM and provides an overview of the customizations and processes involved from the collection of the TIM audit logs to the preparation of reports based on these logs.
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28 Oct 2008 |
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User Centric Identity with Tivoli Federated Identity Manager, Part 2: Self registration and account recovery using information cards and OpenID
Attracting users to register at your retail Web site has always been a challenge. Not only do you need to have a fantastic service to offer, you also need to make the on-boarding process as simple and convenient as possible.
Traditional federation technologies like Liberty and SAML allowed companies to collaborate with tightly-coupled user bases by establishing 1:1 or many:few relationships; however, that model does not scale to the true retail space.
User Centric Identity management technologies like OpenID and Information Cards allow people to manage their own identity attributes at distributed "Identity Providers" (including self-issued Information Cards).
This article will demonstrate how to implement self-registration using an Information Card or OpenID (with the simple registration extension - SREG). Automated recovery of an account is also implemented, such as when
the user centric credential with which it was registered is lost. Sample code is provided to rapidly enable these capabilities with IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager 6.2.
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15 Oct 2008 |
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Managing OpenID trusted sites with Tivoli Federated Identity Manager
IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager 6.2 (TFIM) introduces support for OpenID 1.1 and 2.0 authentication protocols. When configured in the role of an OpenID Provider (Identity Provider), TFIM allows end users to record choices about authenticating to trusted relying-party sites. For example a user may select "Allow authentication forever" to a particular relying-party, and may select which attributes they are willing to share with that site. By default TFIM stores these choices in persistent cookies on the user's browser. The cookie technique is effective, but not portable for users across different browsers. This article will demonstrate how to write your own plug-in for the storage and retrieval of user choices (for example to a database) via the TFIM TrustedSitesManager extension point.
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15 Oct 2008 |
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User-Centric Identity with Tivoli Federated Identity Manager, Part 1: Replace Password Authentication on your Web site with an Information Card or OpenID
Most people passionately dislike having to remember and update passwords. A lot of corporate dollars are spent on customer service for password resets. In this article we describe a way for users to establish one or more alternate means of authentication to IBM WebSphere or Tivoli Access Manager environments using Information Cards and OpenID's. The flow is simple - the user first authenticates to the site using an existing authentication mechanism (which may be username/password or some other means), then "links" a user-centric credential (i.e., an information card or OpenID) to their account. Thereafter, the Information Card or OpenID can be used as the primary means of authentication.
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06 Oct 2008 |
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Secure replication in IBM Tivoli Directory Server
The article describes how to easily configure different replication topologies in IBM Tivoli Directory Server (TDS) using simple shell scripts. These scripts can be used to configure all known replication topologies (like Peer-peer, Master-Replica-Forwarder, Gateways etc) using simple bind, SSL with certificates or Kerberos authentication mechanism. The information in this article applies to TDS version 5.2 and later.
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30 Sep 2008 |
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Tivoli Directory Server 6.1 password policy : enhancements, configuration and troubleshooting
A password policy is a set of rules designed to enhance security by encouraging users to employ strong passwords and use them properly. A password policy is often part of an organization's official regulations which ensures that users change their passwords periodically, passwords meet construction requirements, the re-use of old password is restricted, and users are locked out after a certain number of failed attempts. This article is intended to highlight the new features introduced with IBM Tivoli Directory Server(TDS) 6.1 release and describe the ways of debugging trivial password policy problems in TDS.
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29 Sep 2008 |
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Single sign-on from Microsoft Office SharePoint Server to applications
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) provides a single sign-on capability for applications whose content is retrieved for rendering via MOSS. Microsoft provides an interface through which other credential providers can be integrated. In this article, an approach to integrate IBM Tivoli Access Manager for e-Business with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server for downstream single sign-on is introduced. Sample code is also provided to demonstrate the integration approach described in this article.
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29 Sep 2008 |
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Understanding the Tivoli Federated Identity Manager Information Service 6.2
IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager 6.2 (TFIM) provides a Web service
interface designed to obtain federation, federated user, and user alias
information from a TFIM environment. This Web service is known
as the TFIM Information Service. This article shows how to create a Web service
client from the interface using Rational Application Developer 7.0
and also contains a sample application which uses the newly created
Web service client to query federation, federated user and user alias information.
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18 Sep 2008 |
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Enabling Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server Client Integration through Tivoli Access Manager e-business WebSEAL using Forms Authentication
This article describes a IBM Tivoli Access Manager for e-business (TAMeb) WebSEAL integration for Microsoft Office SharePoint
Server that allows Office Client integration to be used with forms based authentication. The solution relied on a custom authentication mechanism
for WebSEAL and the use of a one time use persistent cookie.
This article provides the source code of a prototype implementation.
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16 Sep 2008 |
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Tivoli Federated Identity Manager Business Gateway and ASP.NET authentication
In this article we show you how to enable your ASP.NET applications for federated single sign-on utilizing the Tivoli Federated Identity Manager Business Gateway (FIM-BG) and the plug-in it provides for Microsoft® Internet Information Server Version 6 (IIS). Your existing forms-based authentication mechanism can be expanded to include support for participating in a federated single sign-on using the SAML 1.0, 1.1 or 2.0 protocols. Here, we take a sample ASP.NET application through the process of federated single sign-on enablement using FIM-BG and the plug-in for IIS.
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12 Sep 2008 |
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Integrating Tivoli Federated Identity Manager and Tivoli Identity Manager
IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager (TFIM) is IBM's solution for identity propagation in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). As well as providing support for a variety of security token types, identity processing in TFIM can transform identities from one administrative domain to another. In this article, the design and implementation of a customized mapping module for TFIM will be presented. Tivoli Identity Manager (TIM) will be used as the source of identity metadata used to map the incoming identity to another identity.
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12 Sep 2008 |
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Developing a custom Java module
TFIM 6.2 provides an OSGi (Open Services Gateway Initiative) extension point for custom plug-ins for STS modules.
In this tutorial, we will walk through the complete development process for creating a custom STS plug-in for Tivoli Federated Identity Manager (TFIM) 6.2.
Customers might develop their own STS plug-ins for a variety of reasons including advanced user mapping and attribute gathering capabilities, or to support validation or issuing of proprietary security token types.
This tutorial will use as a working example a simple mapping module which adds a configurable name/value parameter pair as an attribute to the TFIM Trust Service's STSUniversalUser.
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12 Sep 2008 |
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Action Manager in Tivoli Directory Integrator
Tivoli Directory Integrator (hereafter called TDI) provides a component, namely Action Manager, which can be used for configuring rules and executing actions on the different triggering conditions provided by TDI.
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10 Sep 2008 |
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Role recertification in Tivoli Identity Manager
In IBM Tivoli Identity Manager (ITIM), organizational roles help to simplify and automate the process of provisioning and de-provisioning user privileges to IT and non-IT resources. In addition to the user and account lifecycle management that ITIM provides, workflows can also assist with the lifecycle management of user role memberships, such as role assignment and role approval. Another important process is validating the continued business need for a person to be a member of a role. This process is known as role recertification or attestation.
ITIM version 5.0, introduced a number of enhancements that allow users to request role assignments and have those requests approved by the role owner. Recertification of user role membership is another role management process that can be built in ITIM 5.0, and this process can be implemented in a number of ways. Although ITIM 5.0 does not provide this functionality in a ready-to-use interface, this article discusses a number of solutions for implementing role recertification in ITIM 5.0.
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08 Aug 2008 |
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Debugging and troubleshooting the IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator Windows Password Synchronizer Plug-in
This article primarily focuses on IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator Password Synchronizer Plug-in for synchronizing Microsoft Windows Active Directory with Tivoli Directory Server 6.0 using IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator 6.1.1. In this example, we use MQ Everyplace as a password store, and we also discuss LDAP password store.
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21 Jul 2008 |
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Request-based role assignment in Tivoli Identity Manager
In version 5.0, IBM Tivoli Identity Manager (ITIM) introduces several new features to enhance its request-based provisioning model. Request-based provisioning allows users to request access to enterprise resources via a self-service interface. To better abstract the user from the details of the IT systems, ITIM 5.0 allows a user to request a role assignment. This greatly increases the flexibility of the request-based provisioning model, because a role can be associated with multiple entitlements. This article discusses a number of use cases for the request-based role assignment and demonstrates how these use cases can be realized via ITIM.
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08 Jul 2008 |
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Monitoring Tivoli Access Manager WebSEAL server transactions using Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Response Time Tracking
IBM Tivoli Monitoring software is used to monitor the availability and performance of your enterprise servers on a variety of platforms.
IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Response time tracking is used for measuring the response time of transactions. This article shows how Tivoli Monitoring, in conjunction with Tivoli Composite Application Manager, can be used to monitor response time of the WebSEAL server.
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07 Jul 2008 |
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Troubleshooting IBM Tivoli Directory Server performance, Part 1: Resolving slow queries using the TDS audit log
IBM Tivoli Directory Server (TDS) is a key component of many corporate environments. Other IBM Tivoli products such as IBM Tivoli Access Manager for e-Business and IBM Tivoli Identity Manager use IBM Tivoli Directory Server as a key middleware component. This document discusses ways to identify and correct performance issues for TDS using the audit log.
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07 Jul 2008 |
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Software as a Service: Simplified tenant provisioning using IBM entry level middleware
This demo focuses on the ease of provisioning new tenant banks in a sample
banking application through the use of Apache ANT scripts and a few portlets for the
administrator roles. A new WebSphere Application Server Community Edition virtual
host and security realm are provisioned through ANT scripts invoked from a new
service provider administrator portlet. A new openLDAP user database is created and
new LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF) files imported through another ANT script. The portal for the new tenant bank is customized through a tenant administrator portlet by modifying style sheets, providing tenant specific images and uploading and deploying these to the running application. Custom fields are added to other portlets which use XML columns defined in DB2 Express-C V9 through simple configuration steps in a tenant administrator portlet.
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16 May 2008 |
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SOA and SAP - Let IBM extend your investment
This article presents a solution that allows for identity
propagation from SAP Web service clients to products from
other vendors. It allows organizations that are heavily
invested in SAP to reuse their infrastructure in Systems-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
projects. After reading this article, you will know
how to propagate the identity within a SAP Web service request
to other vendors' products. The solution uses the
IBMWebSphere DataPower XML Firewall in conjunction with the
IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager Security Token Service to
map the proprietary SAP identity token to an open standards
token, such as SAML. This augments the SAP Web service client
functionality and allows for securing Web services sent to
third party products.
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07 May 2008 |
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Authenticating a SAP login ticket in Tivoli Access Manager e-business WebSEAL
This article describes how to build an implementation of an authentication service using
the IBM Tivoli Access Manager for e-business (TAMeb) WebSEAL External Authentication C API.
The implementation of the authentication service extracts and validates the user name in an
SAP Login Ticket (an HTTP cookie), then passes the user name to WebSEAL in order to build a
credential. This article provides the source code and binary code of a prototype implementation.
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07 May 2008 |
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Using SAML security tokens with Microsoft Web Services Enhancements
Microsoft Web Services Enhancements (WSE) is a framework for developing
secure, interoperable Web services for the Microsoft .NET platform. WSE supports standard
security token types such as Username, Kerberos and X.509 certificate tokens. One widely
used security token type not supported by WSE is the Security Assertion Markup Language
(SAML). This article will demonstrate an architecture and implementation capable of
integrating WSE and SAML using Tivoli Federated Identity Manager (TFIM).
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29 Apr 2008 |
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AJAX techniques within a Tivoli Access Manager WebSEAL Environment
This article describes the challenges found when introducing Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) programming techniques into an IBM Tivoli Access Manager (TAM) WebSEAL environment. It provides a brief review of WebSEAL technology and a brief introduction
to AJAX methods. The considerations are outlined for AJAX developers when working with WebSEAL. The potential solutions to issues
that can arise are supplied, along with listing best practices that will assists AJAX developers to succeed in a WebSEAL environment.
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29 Apr 2008 |
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Tivoli Directory Proxy Server in a Tivoli Access Manager environment: Manage and troubleshoot TDS 6.0 Proxy Server in a Tivoli Access Manager environment
If you work in the software industry, the chances are good that you've heard of LDAP directory server by now. Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) defines a standard method for accessing and updating information in a directory where directories are accessed using the client-server model that is optimized for read access. IBM Tivoli Access Manager (TAM) uses LDAP directory server as a user registry to store its user and group information. Tivoli Directory Server (TDS) Server is the default LDAP directory server shipped with TAM. TDS server can be configured as a back-end server or as a proxy server. This article will help you understand how TAM uses TDS proxy server. It also provides inputs to manage and troubleshoot the TDS proxy server in a TAM environment.
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24 Mar 2008 |
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Integrating Tivoli Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign-on with X Windows Applications
Tivoli Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign-on (TAM E-SSO) provides a component that runs on a user's Microsoft Windows desktop to achieve single sign-on (SSO) with Windows, Web, JavaTM and host emulator applications. TAM E-SSO provides a range of flexible techniques to integrate with these different application types. In this article, integration with graphical, X-windows applications running on UNIX and Linux is demonstrated through the use of Xmanager, an X Windows server for the Microsoft Windows platform.
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17 Mar 2008 |
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Bulk attestation within Tivoli Identity Manager
As part of compliance requirements, organizations are required to perform attestation of a user's entitlements for access to systems. This process usually requires a responsible party (for example, the user's manager) to assert that the user continues to require access to a particular system. IBM Tivoli Identity Manager (ITIM) provides account attestation as part of its core functionality, and hence can implement complex attestation requirements. However, setting the attestation for a large number of target systems can be a chore. In addition, when a responsible party is asked to perform attestation for many users of a system as part of a continuous attestation cycle, the task becomes laborious. This tutorial gives the reader some methods for scaling attestation from a manageability perspective, using features available within ITIM 5.0.
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04 Mar 2008 |
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Custom TAM TAI++ Interceptor to detect step-up authentication
It is a common practice to externalise the authentication from Web application servers like IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) to dedicated single sign on (SSO) servers like IBM Tivoli Access Manager for eBusiness (TAMeB). The SSO server, for example, TAMeB, offers enhanced security features like strong authentication and step-up authentication In order to externalise the authentication from WAS to TAMeB, a trust association interceptor (TAI) should be installed and configured on the WebSphere Application Server (WAS). However, the TAI shipped with the default WAS 6.x servers cannot detect the authentication level of the user, that is, whether the user used password or a security token. This additional information about the authentication level might be needed to the applications running on WAS to make authorization decisions. A custom TAM TAI++ interceptor should be developed and installed on the WebSphere Application Server to determine the authentication level of the user. This article explains the procedure to develop and install such a custom TAM TAI++ interceptor.
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21 Nov 2007 |
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Consolidated views of IBM Tivoli Directory Server components using IBM Tivoli Monitoring
IBM Tivoli Monitoring monitors and manages system and network applications on a variety of platforms and keeps track of the availability and performance of all parts of your enterprise. This article shows how IBM Tivoli Monitoring can be used to do a consolidated monitoring of specific components of the IBM Tivoli Directory Server.
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01 Nov 2007 |
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Developing a portlet application on compliance reporting for IBM Tivoli Security Compliance Manager
This article provides an example of how to develop a portlet application on compliance reporting for IBM Tivoli Security Compliance Manager (SCM). As recent events indicate, security is a growing concern of enterprises.
Enterprises need to address security compliance with an increasing number of government and corporate security policies, standards and regulations.
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30 Oct 2007 |
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Cryptographic hardware use with Tivoli Access Manager for e-Business: SSL acceleration for WebSEAL using the IBM 4960 on AIX
The most computationally expensive part of establishing an SSL session is decryption of the SSL session's public key sent to an SSL server. By offloading SSL operations to a dedicated hardware device, like the IBM 4960 SSL accelerator, customers can achieve greater performance throughput using fewer CPU cycles. This article outlines the detailed configuration steps to enable SSL acceleration for IBM Tivoli Access Manager for e-Business (TAMeB) WebSEAL using the IBM 4960 crypto card PKCS#11 interface on the IBM AIX platform.
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04 Oct 2007 |
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Troubleshooting Tivoli Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign-On (TAMESSO)
This article helps to scale the deployment skills of customers, Business Partners and IBM consultants who deploy and operate the IBM Tivoli Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign-On (TAMESSO) product. It will essentially describe various troubleshooting tips of commonly reported problems, and it also aids in overcoming issues encountered during integration of TAMESSO with other products.
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01 Oct 2007 |
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Securing a composite business service delivered as a software-as-a-service: Part II, Supporting identity propagation (enterprise and federated SSO) and authorization
A composite business service (CBS) introduces many new challenges for security in an SOA solution. In this two-article series, a few security scenarios are examined in a proof-of-concept (PoC) CBS software-as-a-service (SaaS) application for banking called Jivaro. These scenarios help to identify when and how to apply different IBM Tivoli security products. In particular, scenarios for using IBM Tivoli Access Manager and Tivoli Federated Identity Manager (TFIM) for meeting SSO requirements in a CBS are described.
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27 Sep 2007 |
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Enforcing security in a Software as a Service application
See how WebSphere portal access control features can be exploited for
enforcing security in a SaaS application by restricting the set of portal pages and portlets that a particular user can access, based on the role of the user.
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26 Sep 2007 |
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Software as a Service: Securing human tasks in work flows using WebSphere Process Server & Tivoli Directory Server
See how the LDAP Staff Resolution plug-in feature in WebSphere Process
Server is used to secure human tasks in business process execution language (BPEL) processes with a common user registry.
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26 Sep 2007 |
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Software as a Service: Enforcing role based access control using WebSphere Portal Server & Tivoli Directory Server
See how WebSphere portal access control features can be exploited for
enforcing security in a SaaS application by restricting the set of portal pages and portlets that a particular user can access, based on the role of the user.
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26 Sep 2007 |
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Software as a Service: Building a
multi-tenant user registry using WebSphere Portal Server & Tivoli Directory Server
This demo shows how to build a multi-tenant user registry using WebSphere Portal Server and Tivoli Directory Server. It is part of a scenario that describes how to enforce security in a Software as a Service application.
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26 Sep 2007 |
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Enforcing Security in a Software as a Service application
See how the LDAP Staff Resolution plug-in feature in WebSphere Process
Server is used to secure human tasks in business process execution language (BPEL) processes with a common user registry.
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26 Sep 2007 |
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Delegation of Administrative Rights in Tivoli Directory Server 6.1 Using Administrative Roles
For better delegation of administrative rights, a "server administrative roles" feature has been added in the 6.1 release of IBM Tivoli Directory Server (TDS). This article takes a look at each administrative role in details and presents use cases to show how the role can be used in the real-life scenarios.
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19 Sep 2007 |
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Securing a composite business service delivered as a software-as-a-service: Part I, secure multi-tenancy with WebSphere Portal Server
A composite business service (CBS) introduces many new challenges (for example, multi-tenancy) for security in an SOA solution. In this two-article series, a few security scenarios are examined in a proof-of-concept CBS software-as-a-service (SaaS) application for banking called Jivaro, which helps to identify when and how to apply different IBM Tivoli security products.
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12 Sep 2007 |
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Autonomic computing tip: So you want SSL security on ISC
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) provides encryption, certificate-based
authentication, and security negotiations, allowing you to bring data security over open communications channels to your Integrated Solutions Console (ISC). This is a quick checklist of step-by-step instructions on enabling SSL certificates on your ISC versions 5.1 and 6.0.1.
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31 Jul 2007 |
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Tivoli Security: Using Tivoli Access Manager for e-business with HTTPS for Authentication Only
In intranet deployments of IBM Tivoli Access Manager for e-business, there is often a requirement to use the HTTPS protocol for the authentication phase only, and use HTTP protocol for all other communications. Reasons for this are typically that the network is (mostly) trusted, and the performance impact
of SSL is deemed unwarranted. This article describes the configuration procedure to achieve this with the
WebSEAL component of Tivoli Access Manager for e-business.
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19 Jul 2007 |
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Session management server: Session transitions and state
The session management server (SMS) is a new component of Tivoli® Access Manager for e-business (TAMeb), version 6.0. The SMS provides a broad range of capabilities that change the way Tivoli Access Manager Web security servers (WebSEAL or Web server plug-ins) handle Web-based browser sessions. This paper is to educate you about a session's lifecycle within the SMS by using real-life use cases. You will gain an understanding of what communication takes place between the different products in relation to SMS. This knowledge will give you the confidence to troubleshoot an environment that contains SMS, if problem determination is required.
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25 Jun 2007 |
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Command line adapter for Tivoli Identity Manager
When using IBM Tivoli Identity Manager (ITIM) adapters, it often becomes necessary to execute an auxiliary function that is not provided ”ready to use” by the adapter. For example, when
provisioning an Active Directory (AD) account, there might be a need to create a default set of folders and files in the user's home directory. This paper discusses developing a custom ITIM adapter that allows these auxiliary functions to be implemented using shell commands. The paper also discusses the advantages of running this custom adapter over the use of postexec and preexec functions. It is assumed that the audience of this article is familiar with ITIM and Tivoli Directory Integrator (TDI).
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12 Jun 2007 |
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How to use TAMeb 6.0 SMS for an automatic account management service
Tivoli Access Manager for e-business (TAMeb) version 6.0 introduced the Session Management Server (SMS). This new service provides a solution for complex shared session management requirements and storage of login data. This article shows how this information can be used to automatically manipulate accounts to avoid potential threats, and assist with proactively satisfying account compliance requirements.
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30 May 2007 |
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Creating a new portal: Part 6. Administering and maintaining the portal
This last part in the series "Creating a new portal" describes the ongoing support and administration of a portal, including the need for specific team members and their roles. It discusses the skills and training that should be developed before your portal goes live, how to harden the performance of your portal, and issues you might face with the deployment and governance of your production system.
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23 May 2007 |
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SSL on ISC, Part 2: Configuring and enabling SSL on the Integrated Solutions Console 5.1/6.0.1
Achieve data security over open communications channels with Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), which provides encryption, certificate-based authentication, and security negotiations. In part one of this three-part series, you learned what SSL is and why you should implement it on your Integrated Solutions Console. In this article, learn step-by-step how to implement SSL on version 5.1 and 6.0.1 of the Integrated Solutions Console.
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01 May 2007 |
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IBM Tivoli Access Manager Tracing
Successful problem determination of IBM Tivoli Access Manager for e-business (TAMeb) incidents requires an ability to exploit a number of key tools. IBM Tivoli Software Support usually provides leadership to our customers on which tools to use to further analyse such incidents. This article provides information on one of these tools, TAMeb component tracing, and aims to give the reader some guidance on choosing an appropriate tracing component for problem determination of a specific incident.
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27 Apr 2007 |
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Enforce resource property semantics with metadata
The WS-ResourceProperties specification defines a standard for declaring strongly-typed properties as part of a Web service interface, but it does not say anything about permissions, validation, and other important topics. Fortunately, the WS-ResourceFramework authors have provided a new specification, WS-ResourceMetadata, that can help you deal with these issues in a standard way. The Apache Muse project provides implementations of both of these specs and lets you associate metadata with your resource properties with just a small XML file. This article describes how to use metadata to secure and validate your properties and how to test different metadata settings.
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24 Apr 2007 |
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End-to-end security and message protection in a WebSphere MQ client/server environment
This article shows you how to use IBM Tivoli Access Manager for Business Integration, which is provided as part of WebSphere MQ V6 Enterprise Security Edition, to secure WebSphere MQ clients and provide end-to-end message security. It also describes how Tivoli Access Manager supplements WebSphere MQ security, and the steps required to configure client security.
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18 Apr 2007 |
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SSL on ISC, Part 1: What is SSL and why should I care?
Achieve data security over open communications channels with Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), which provides encryption, certificate-based authentication, and security negotiations. This article, part one of a three-part series, describes SSL and explains why you should implement it on your Integrated Solutions Console. In parts two and three, follow a step-by-step guide to learn how to implement SSL on the Integrated Solutions Console versions 5.1 and 6.0.1, respectively.
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20 Mar 2007 |
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Never worry about backup again
Tivoli Continuous Data Protection backs up your files the moment you change them. At only US$35, this low-cost product may be right for you.
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31 Jan 2007 |
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How to configure the TAMeb 6.0 EAI to implement complex authentication requirements
Tivoli Access Manager for e-business (TAMeb) version 6.0 introduced the external authentication interface (EAI). This TAMeb interface provides another method for providing solutions for complex authentication requirements. This paper discusses how the EAI operates and through an example describes the details of how to configure TAMeb for an EAI application. The source code of the EAI application is available for download.
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16 Oct 2006 |
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IBM Tivoli monitoring for Q Replication
Learn how to access Q Replication monitoring information, how to bring this data into the Tivoli platform, and how to use Tivoli alerts and situations so that Q Replication receives notifications when critical events occur. IBM Tivoli Monitoring is a family of products designed to monitor the health and performance of your enterprise applications.
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24 Jul 2006 |
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IBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal: Monitoring an IBM WebSphere Extended Deployment environment
The Java Management Extension (JMX) capabilities of IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment and IBM WebSphere Extended Deployment provide the insight required to properly monitor an autonomic environment, to which traditional operational monitoring methods do not apply. This article discusses some interesting operating conditions that are possible in a WebSphere Extended Deployment environment and techniques for obtaining notification of various states.
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19 Apr 2006 |
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Optimize resource usage and reduce costs, Part 1: Strengthen an enterprise intranet using WebSphere
Extended Deployment
Learn how one team, the IBM intranet portal team,
upgraded the IBM internal enterprise applications
infrastructure. This article, the first in a series,
explains the problems to be solved, the proposed solutions,
and how the team uses the features of WebSphere Extended
Deployment to achieve their goals.
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10 Jan 2006 |
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Tivoli Federated Identity Manager: Understanding the Tivoli Federated Identity Manager Information Service
The Information Service API is a programming interface within IBM Tivoli
Federated Identity Manager that allows you to query federation's configuration information.
In addition to querying a federations configuration and federation partners, you can also
determine per-user participation within those federation types that incorporate account linking,
such as Liberty. This API is very useful for Web portal pages to render user and
site-specific links to partners.
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08 Nov 2005 |
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Two-Factor Authentication using Tivoli Access Manager WebSEAL
This paper focuses on the implementation of two-factor authentication methods using the Tivoli Access Manager (TAM) WebSEAL product. It aims to provide the reader with an overview of two-factor authentication systems supported within TAM WebSEAL, and presents options for extending the capabilities to include other two-factor authentication systems. It documents the method of implementation of a WebSEAL cross-domain-authentication-service (CDAS) and presents a practical example of implementation using mobile phone Short Message Service (SMS). Within this example, two different configuration options are presented for WebSEAL to support the service, one that implements a token CDAS and another that uses the simple username/password CDAS. In each of these implementations, the advantages and disadvantages of each are presented.
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06 Oct 2005 |
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IBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal: Advanced authentication in WebSphere Application Server
The advanced authentication features in IBM WebSphere Application Server V6 support a more flexible authentication model with a new, highly customizable authentication framework that is based upon -- and extends -- Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS).
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17 Aug 2005 |
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Tivoli support
Search Tivoli self-help resources, submit or track a technical problem, or access documentation to help you learn and troubleshoot.
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28 Jul 2005 |
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Tivoli downloads
Access Tivoli downloads, including product trials, emerging technologies, updates, fixes, utilities and drivers.
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22 Jul 2005 |
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Tutorials
Start here to find the tutorials, courses, and certification guides you need to stay up-to-date with Tivoli technology and to keep your skills top notch.
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24 Jun 2005 |
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Training
Start here to find the tutorials, courses, and certification guides you need to stay up-to-date with Tivoli technology and to keep your skills top notch.
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24 Jun 2005 |
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Take advantage of IBM Tivoli Directory Server's LDAP Controls via Java and JNDI
Controls allow the LDAP protocol to be extended without changing the protocol itself. This article provides information about some important controls implemented by IBM Tivoli Directory Server. It describes what controls are, and presents the API portion of the JNDI which deals with them. With the help of examples, starring the Tree Delete Control and the Password Policy Control, it demonstrates how to employ controls in arbitrary Java components using JNDI.
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11 Jun 2005 |
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Availability
IBM Tivoli monitoring solutions collect operational data across the entire organization, enabling companies to monitor system performance, across heterogeneous environments, from a single console.
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30 May 2005 |
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Security
Protect your organization's data from hardware failures and other errors by storing backup and archive copies of data on offline storage.
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30 May 2005 |
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Business Service Management
IBM Tivoli monitoring solutions collect operational data across the entire organization, enabling companies to monitor system performance, across heterogeneous environments, from a single console."
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30 May 2005 |
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Composite Application Management
This page contains information about Tivoli Application Management solutions.
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30 May 2005 |
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Introduction to LDAP: Part 5: Adding LDAP to your WebSphere Enterprise Application
You can use LDAP authentication to implement a more fine grained access for an Enterprise Java Bean (EJB).
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28 May 2005 |
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Introduction to LDAP: Part 2: LDAP and WebSphere
LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) provides an excellent authentication mechanism for your WebSphere Application Server.
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28 Apr 2005 |
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Introduction to LDAP: Part 3: Adding LDAP to your WebSphere Enterprise Application
You can use LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) authentication in your WebSphere Application Server application.
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28 Apr 2005 |
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Introduction to LDAP: Part 4: Adding LDAP to your WebSphere Enterprise Application
You can use the WebSphere Application Server to access Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) data. In addition you can use LDAP authentication to restrict access to a Enterprise Java Bean (EJB).
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28 Apr 2005 |
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Introduction to LDAP: Part 1: Installation and simple Java LDAP Programming
This article will provide you with a general overview of LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol).
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07 Apr 2005 |
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New to Tivoli
This area is designed for people new to Tivoli.
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08 Mar 2005 |
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Products
Find information on specific Tivoli software products, including product-related articles, news, downloads, and forums.
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05 Nov 2004 |
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Setting up Replication in IBM Directory Server 5.1
This article provides step by step instructions on how to set up replication for IBM Directory Server 5.1. After setup, server replication improves the availability of the directory service. The combination of a master and multiple replicated servers ensures that directory data is always available when needed. If any server fails, the directory server continues to be available from another replicated server.
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03 Sep 2004 |
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Tivoli Access Manager Trust Association Interceptor (TAI++)
With the release of WebSphere Application Server 5.1.1 and 6.0, there is a new enhanced implementation of the Tivoli Access Manager Trust Association Interceptor. The existing TAI continues to be supported, but many will wish to use the new TAI as it has significant enhancements. This article describes the new functionality provided by the new TAI and provides configuration instructions and trouble shooting tips.
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01 Sep 2004 |
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IBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal: Using the WebSphere V5.0 Trust-association Interceptor with IBM Tivoli Access Manager for e-Business WebSEAL V4.1
This article describes how to enable a security proxy server to be trusted by WebSphere Application Server using TAI for the WebSEAL reverse proxy security server in IBM Tivoli Access Manager for e-business.
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10 Dec 2003 |
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Secure your Web resources: Integrating WebSphere and Tivoli Access Manager
This tutorial steps you through three WebSphere Application Server/Tivoli Access Manager integration scenarios. You'll learn how to share the user registry, and to protect Web resources with WebSEAL via both LTAP and TAI. Setup and configuration details are provided for testing and configuring all the scenarios in the tutorial.
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29 May 2003 |
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Intranet Single Sign-On for Windows and Tivoli Access Manager
Microsoft Windows based intranets provide the ability to use desktop credentials to sign-on to intranet infrastructure based on Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS). This is implemented using Microsoft’s SPNEGO HTTP authentication protocol to sign-on using NTLM or Kerberos credentials. Until IBM Tivoli Access Manager for e-business (TAM) 4.1 was released there was no way to achieve the same sign-on to TAM’s WebSEAL web resource authorization engine. With TAM 4.1 this sign-on can be achieved by combining the SPNEGO sign-on capability of TAM Plugin for IIS with e-Community single sign-on capabilities of WebSEAL. This article describes in detail the configuration steps required to make this work.
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01 May 2003 |
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Toughen Web application security: Multiphased authentication with Tivoli Access Manager
Carelessly chosen passwords have made many password-protected systems vulnerable to outside attack. This tutorial shows you how you can use Tivoli Access Manager WebSEAL to build a multiphased authentication system that locks Web applications down more tightly. The tutorial includes sample C code that you can use as a basis for your own applications.
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01 May 2003 |
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Access Manager Policy Server Clusters
This paper describes how to use load balancing and clustering to ensure high availability and scalability for the Access Manager Policy Server. This paper includes configuration and coding examples to assist administrators in creating this environment.
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01 Dec 2002 |
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Cross-site scripting
Cross-site scripting is a potentially dangerous security exposure that should be considered when designing a secure Web-based application. In this article, Paul describes the nature of the exposure, how it works, and has an overview of some recommended remediation strategies.
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01 Sep 2002 |
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Create effective passwords
Passwords. These days it seems that everyone has five to 10 of these annoying creatures where a few years ago most people had maybe one or two. Today, having up to 10 passwords at a time is often the norm and it's not going to get any easier to manage them. This article looks at password usage: why it's a problem and what you can do about it. It introduces a simple system for creating secure and easy-to-remember passwords.
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01 Sep 2002 |
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