IBM Verify Identity Governance - Virtual Appliance overview

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The IBM Verify Identity Governance - Virtual Appliance is a virtual appliance-based identity governance solution. IBM Verify Identity Governance - Virtual Appliance offers a virtual appliance to reduce the overall Time To Value (TTV) and greatly reduce the deployment time of the product. You can configure the virtual appliance for a cluster environment.

IBM Verify Identity Governance - Virtual Appliance overview

The IBM Verify Identity Governance - Virtual Appliance deployment is a controlled environment. Operating system and middleware complexities are hidden, thus simplifying the deployment and configuration process.

The IBM Verify Identity Governance - Virtual Appliance is a virtual appliance-based identity governance solution. IBM Verify Identity Governance - Virtual Appliance offers a virtual appliance to reduce the overall Time To Value (TTV) and greatly reduce the deployment time of the product. You can configure the virtual appliance for a cluster environment.

IBM Verify Identity Governance provides a mechanism to initially set up a semi-passive virtual appliance and a high availability solution for providing an all-in-one identity governance solution. The virtual appliance helps to decrease the amount of time the user spends in deploying and configuring in their own production environment.

You can configure a IBM Verify Identity Governance - Virtual Appliance to connect to external database servers, directory servers, and other supported appliances. You can manage the configuration interfaces and capabilities to deploy and configure the products on the virtual appliance.

The IBM Verify Identity Governance - Virtual Appliance cluster is made of one primary node and other member nodes. All configuration changes such as hardware and software are done only on the primary node. There is only one primary node in the cluster. Even if the primary node itself goes down or must be taken down, the other nodes can continue to do most of the IBM Verify Identity Governance functions. In such a scenario, some features, such as the Governance Risk dashboard, which depends on he Spark engine running on primary node will not work. Changes to configuration details are not allowed until the primary node is reconnected in the cluster.

Virtual appliance features

The IBM Verify Identity Governance virtual appliance provides the following features:
  • A configuration wizard for the first time configuration of the IBM Verify Identity Governance solution in stand-alone or cluster mode.
  • 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 Verify Identity Governance.
  • Centralized management of IBM Verify Identity Governance settings such as data tier components or external entities, and log files.
  • The controls for the system settings such as host name, date or time, and network settings.
  • Most of the features are configurable by using the graphical management interface.
  • Add member nodes that point to the primary node to process large number of IBM Verify Identity Governance requests.
  • Remove a node from the cluster for any maintenance such as applying fix packs, upgrades, or failures.
  • Synchronization between two nodes.
  • Backing up a primary node for disaster recovery purposes.
  • External middleware components such as database server and directory server.
  • Manage application server certificates, upload feed files, configure mail server
  • Configure OIDC-based Single Sign On to authorize the user to use multiple applications with the single sign-on facility.
  • Upload, download, or update files on the virtual appliance by using the Custom File Management feature from the Appliance Dashboard.
  • Upload library files and custom workflow extensions that can be used in IBM Verify Identity Governance.
  • Update IBM Verify Identity Governance properties by using the Update Property feature from the Appliance Dashboard.
  • Monitoring the status of all the nodes and the individual applications in the IBM Verify Identity Governance - Virtual Appliance cluster.
  • Send system audit events over emails.
  • SNMP monitoring can be used to monitor the IBM Verify Identity Governance - Virtual Appliance.
  • Configure an external library.
  • Enable separate application interfaces for the virtual appliance and the application consoles.
  • Use of log file management.
  • Export and import configurations. You can also export, import, access, or download report files.
  • Download and view core dumps to diagnose or debug virtual appliance errors.
  • Manage hosts file.
  • Configure static routes.