Release notes - IBM® Security® Identity Google Apps Adapter 6.0.11

IBM Security Identity Manager Google Apps Adapter 6.0.11 is available. Compatibility, installation, and other getting-started issues are addressed.

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Contents

 

Preface

Welcome to the IBM Security Identity Manager Google Apps Adapter.

These Release Notes contain information for the following products that was not available when the IBM Security Identity Manager manuals were printed:

 

Adapter Features and Purpose

The Google Apps Adapter is designed to create and manage User Accounts on the Google Apps domain. The adapter runs in "agentless" mode and communicates using Google Directory API to the Google Apps Domain being managed.

IBM recommends the installation of this Adapter (and the prerequisite IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator) on each node of an IBM Security Identity Manager WAS cluster. A single copy of the adapter can handle multiple IBM Security Identity Manager Services. The deployment configuration is based, in part, on the topology of your network domain, but the primary factor is the planned structure of your IBM Security Identity Manager Provisioning Policies and Approval Workflow process. Please refer to the IBM Security Identity Manager Information Center for a discussion of these topics.

The IBM Security Identity Manager Adapters are powerful tools that require Administrator Level authority. Adapters operate much like a human system administrator, creating accounts, permissions and home directories. Operations requested from the IBM Security Identity Manager server will fail if the Adapter is not given sufficient authority to perform the requested task. IBM recommends that this Adapter run with administrative (root) permissions. 

License Agreement

Review and agree to the terms of the IBM security Identity Adapter License prior to using this product.

The license can be viewed from the “license” folder included in the product package. 

Contents of this Release

Adapter Version

Component

Version

Build Date

2019 October 11 15.46.44

Adapter Version

6.0.11

Component Versions

Adapter build: 6.0.11.77

Profile:  6.0.11.77

Connector:  6.0.11.77

Dispatcher 6.0.34 or higher (packaged separately)

Documentation

The following guides are available in the IBM Knowledge Center:

 

·  Google Apps Adapter Installation and Configuration Guide

New Features

Enhancement # (RFE)

Description

 

 

Items included in 6.0.11 (current) release

 

None

 

 

Items included in 6.0.9 release

 

 

None

 

 

Items included in 6.0.8 release

 

 

N/A

 

 

Items included in 6.0.6 release

INT154246

 

Support additional attributes and custom attributes in Google Apps

 

 

 

Items included in 6.0.5 release

INT106146

 

Implement exponential back-off for "user rate exceeded" error.

 

 

 

Items included in 6.0.4 release

INT99294

 

Support non-primary domains.

 

INT99913

 

Migrate to the new Google Directory API.

 

 

 

Items included in 6.0.3 release

 

RFE38223

 

Support Managing Alias/Nickname.

 

 

RFE38222

 

Support Managing Organisation Unit (OU)

 

 

 

Items included in 6.0.2 release

 

RFE28276

 

Support Rename of Google App Account User ID 'eruid' attribute.

 

 

INT69809

 

Support Google Data Java Client Library version 1.47.1

 

 

 

Items included in 6.0.1 release

 

 

Initial release.

 

 

 

 


Closed Issues

Internal#

APAR#

Case# / Description

 

 

 

Items closed in 6.0.11 (current) version

 RTC 185053

Bug 3037

 Release Notes – Supported Configuration Incorrect

 

 

 

Items closed in 6.0.9  version

 


RTC  176347

Bug 2575

IJ06784

 

D - As a GoogleApps adapter developer I need to update the adapter so that it reconciles complete data from multiple domains

 

 

 

 

Items closed in 6.0.8 version

 

 

 

Work around google defect that causes recon to fail with unexpected error when quota limit is reached

 

 

 

Items closed in 6.0.5 version

 

 

IV57415

 

The reconciliation gets only 100 accounts (one page).

 

 

 

 

Items closed in 6.0.1 version

 

 

 

 

Initial release.

 

Known Issues

Internal#

APAR#

Case# / Description

 

N/A

 

N/A

 

Character usage (usernames, passwords, names) limitation. Refer to the section "Character usage (usernames, passwords, groups, names)" in Google Apps Administrator Help.

 

 

N/A

 

N/A

 

Both the Group ID and User ID are not UTF-8 supported.

 

 

N/A

 

N/A

 

Google Data Java Client needs to be copied into the TDI_HOME\jvm\jre\lib\ext\directory.

 

 

N/A

 

N/A

 

Group Name cannot be updated during a group modify operation. IBM Security Identity Manager does not allow changing value of the attribute that is mapped to ergroupname.

 

 

N/A

 

N/A

 

The existing Group Description cannot be modified to an empty string. This is a known limitation of the Google Apps Group Provisioning API. The adapter does not accept an empty string or null value.

 

 

N/A

 

N/A

 

Adapter does not support NickName.

 

 Known Limitations

Internal#

APAR#

Case# / Description

 

 

 

Adapter does not currently support management of group email permissions as a result of migrating the code to use the Google’s new Directory API. 

 

Installation and Configuration Notes

See the IBM Security Identity Manager Adapter Installation Guide for detailed instructions.

Corrections to Installation Guide

The following corrections to the Installation Guide apply to this release:

            None.

Configuration Notes

The following configuration notes apply to this release:

            None.

 

Customizing or Extending Adapter Features

The IBM Security Identity Manager adapters can be customized and/or extended. The type and method of this customization may vary from adapter to adapter.

Refer to the ‘IBM Security Identity Adapter Development and Customization Guide’  

Support for Customized Adapters

The integration to the IBM Security Identity Manager server "the adapter framework" is supported. However, IBM does not support the customizations, scripts, or other modifications. If you experience a problem with a customized adapter, IBM Support may require the problem to be demonstrated on the GA version of the adapter before a PMR is opened.

 

Supported Configurations

Installation Platform

The IBM Security Identity Manager Adapter was built and tested on the following product versions.

 

Adapter Installation Platform: 

 

Earlier versions of SDI that are still supported may function properly, however to resolve any communication errors, you must upgrade your SDI releases to the officially supported versions by the adapters.

 

Managed Resource:

 

IBM Security Identity Manager:

 

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