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Product Documentation

• Tivoli Identity Manager 5.1 documentation
• Tivoli Identity Manager 5.0 documentation
• Tivoli Identity Manager 4.6 documentation
• Regular Maintenance
• Best Practices

Performance Tuning Guides

There is an ITIM Tuning Guide for each version of the product. They are updated periodically (roughly every 6 months) so it's a good idea to check to see if a new version is available.

• ITIM 5.0 and 5.1 Performance Tuning Guide
• ITIM 4.6 Performance Tuning Guide
• ITIM 4.6 for z/OS Performance Tuning Guide
• ITIM 4.6 Express Performance Tuning Guide
• ITIM 4.5.1 Performance Tuning Guide

In addition, a document with performance best practices for using the ITIM API is available:

• ITIM API Performance Tuning Guide

A set of performance tuning scripts that often come in handy for finding unindexed LDAP queries or slow-performing DB2 queries, among other things, are also available:

• ITIM Performance Tuning Scripts

Product Pages

• Tivoli Identity Manager product home

Community Resources

• Global Tivoli User Group

Blogs

• Tivoli Security Performance Thoughts: Explorations and ruminations on performance
• Charles Ahart: Identity Management, Collaboration, Trials and Tribulations
• Scott's Web Blog: Blogging on Tivoli, Sports, Movies, and stuff

Newsletters and Periodicals

• IBM Tivoli Security Newsletter
• IBM Tivoli Security Newsletter ITIM Addendum

Support Information

• Official support site
• ITIM 5.0 Langauges supported
• Troubleshooting IBM Tivoli Directory Server performance, Part 1: Resolving slow queries using the TDS audit log
• Troubleshooting IBM Tivoli Directory Server performance, Part 2: Resolving slow queries using DB2 snapshots

Redbooks and White Papers

Design guides:

• Identity Management Design Guide with IBM Tivoli Identity Manager
• Identity Management Advanced Design for IBM Tivoli Identity Manager

Architectures for identity management and enterprise security:

• Integrated Identity and Access Management Architectural Patterns
• Enterprise Security Architecture Using IBM Tivoli Security Solutions
• Develop effective user management to demonstrate compliance efforts and achieve business value (PDF)
• Improve IT Security, Efficiency, and Regulation Compliance with IBM Identity Management (PDF)
• Succeeding with automated identity management implementations
• Facilitate your response to HSPD-12 by deploying IBM Tivoli identity management solutions (PDF)

Deployment guide:

• Deployment Guide Series: IBM Tivoli Identity Manager
• Migrating IBM Tivoli Identity Manager 4.5.1/4.6 to version 5.0
• Migrating IBM Tivoli Identity Manager Express 4.6 to 5.0 - middleware upgrade cookbook

Manuals explaining how to integrate IBM Tivoli Identity Manager with other products:

• Exploring the integration between IBM Tivoli Identity Manager and IBM Tivoli Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign-On
• Integrating Tivoli Federated Identity Manager and Tivoli Identity Manager
• Tivoli Identity Manager 5.0 and Tivoli Common Reporting

How to use functions of IBM Tivoli Identify Manager:

• Reverse Password Synchronization with IBM Tivoli Identity Manager
• Organization Chart Design for IBM Tivoli Identity Manager
• IBM Tivoli Identity Manager 4.6 Maintenance Manual
• Role recertification in Tivoli Identity Manager
• IBM Tivoli Identity Manager 4.6 Operations and Customizations - includes an overview of lifecycle operations and entitlement workflows as well as how to customize them.

Certification information:

• Certification Study Guide: IBM Tivoli Identity Manager Version 4.6

Adapter Development Guides:

• Tivoli Identity Manager 5.1 Custom Adapter Developer's Guide

Education

• IBM Tivoli Identity Manager 5.0 Introduction
• IBM Tivoli Identity Manager 5.0 Architecting Security Solutions Workshop (Instructor-Led Online)
• IBM Tivoli Identity Manager 5.0 Customizing ITIM using API's Workshop (Instructor-Led Online)
• IBM Tivoli Identity Manager 5.0 Project Manager Workshop (Instructor-Led Online)
• IBM Tivoli Identity Manager 5.0 RMI Connector Workshop (Instructor-Led Online)

Tools and APIs

These tools are hosted on Tivoli Open Process Automation Library (OPAL) and support both version 4.6 and 5.0.

• Graphical Configuration Editor (GCE) - a tool to import/export and edit configuration using the Eclipse workbench.
• DocTool - extracts exhaustive configuration information in HTML and XML format.
• Adapter Development Tool (ADT) - Eclipse-based tool to help build ITDI-based Adapters.
• API Web Services Wrappers - a J2EE application that can be co-located on ITIM's Websphere server to provide access to most of the end user (self service) related ITIM API thru a standard web services interface.
• Virtual Service Adapter (VSA) - a customized version of the RMI-based POSIX Adapter developed for IBM Tivoli Identity Manager v5.0 that simulates a managed service without having to have the corresponding managed resource or target machine actually exist.
• IBM Tivoli Identity Manager Monitoring Solution - provides the capability of monitoring a Tivoli Identity Manager server using the IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 Universal Agent.
• IBM Tivoli Identity Manager API Scripting Tool - provides remote Python scripting and interactive console capabilities to an IBM Tivoli Identity Manager deployment.
  • IBM Tivoli Identity Manager API Scripting Tool Examples

These zip files provide documentation for the Tivoli Identity Manager versions 4.6 and 5.0 Java Application Programming Interfaces. These are intended for developers writing custom extensions to Tivoli Identity Manager, including custom user interfaces, workflow and scripting extensions, and other utilities.

• Tivoli Identity Manager 5.0 Java Application Programming Interfaces (up to interim fix 11)
• Tivoli Identity Manager 4.6 Java Application Programming Interfaces (up to interim fix 76)

Resources

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This wiki provides valuable information to help you, but it does not replace other technical support services. For additional product information, refer to the following resources:

• Tivoli Identity Manager product support page
• Tivoli Identity Manager product page
• IBM Tivoli Consulting
• Tivoli Software
• IBM Software