IBM Security Directory Suite overview

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You can use IBM® Security Directory Suite to provide a trusted identity data infrastructure for authentication.

IBM Security Directory Suite provides the following features:

  • A powerful and authoritative enterprise directory infrastructure that is a critical enabler for enterprise security.
  • A virtual appliance to reduce the overall Time To Value (TTV) and greatly reduce the deployment time of the product.
  • A server that stores directory information by using a DB2® database.
  • Client and server utilities and graphical user interfaces (GUI) to manage servers.
IBM Security Directory Suite, Version 8.0.1.x includes the following components:
  • Directory Server
  • Web Administration Tool
  • Federated Directory Server with Directory Server as target
  • Federated Directory Server with SCIM target
  • System for Cross-Domain Identity Management (SCIM) service
  • Virtual Directory
Note: IBM Security Directory Suite, Version 8.0.1.x virtual appliance offers single Directory Server instance with each installation. If you require additional instances of Directory Server, you must install and configure a separate Virtual Appliance for each instance.
The Directory Server instance can be configured as one of the following:
  1. A Directory Server instance with a local DB2 database backend (default configuration)
  2. An Directory Server instance with a remote DB2 database backend
  3. A Proxy Directory Server instance in front of other Directory Server instances (Distributed Directories) of the same version
  4. A Virtual Directory Server instance in front of LDAP servers

Virtual appliance overview

A virtual appliance is a pre-configured virtual desktop environment. The IBM Security Directory Suite virtual appliance is a network appliance-based directory services solution that consists of software that is installed on a virtual machine.

The following features are included in the IBM Security Directory Suite, Version 8.0.1.x virtual appliance:

  • A dashboard for viewing system status such as system notifications, cluster status, component and application status, deployment statistics, and disk usage.
  • Analysis and diagnostics tools such as memory statistics, CPU usage, and performance metrics and service statistics for IBM Security Directory Suite.
  • Control of system settings such as host name, date or time, and network settings.
  • Graphical management interface for configuring most of the features.
  • Centralized management of IBM Security Directory Suite configuration settings and log files.
  • Management of application server certificates.
  • Custom File Management feature on the Appliance Dashboard to upload, download, or updating files on the virtual appliance.
  • Update Property feature on the Appliance Dashboard to update Directory Server, Federated Directory Server, and SCIM properties.