Release notes - IBM^® Security Verify Governance Adapter 10.0.3 for UNIX and Linux

IBM^® Security Verify Governance Adapter 10.0.3 for UNIX and Linux is available. Compatibility, installation, and other getting-started issues are addressed.

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Contents

Preface

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

·         UNIX and Linux Adapter Installation and Configuration Guide

·         UNIX and Linux Adapter User Guide

Adapter Features and Purpose

The IBM Security Verify Governance Adapter for UNIX and Linux is designed to create and manage accounts on AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, RedHat and SUSE Linux systems. The adapter runs in "agentless" mode and communicates using Secure Shell (SSH) to the systems being managed.

IBM Security Verify Governance 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 IBM Security Verify Governance 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.

Service Groups Management 

Managing service groups implies the following:

· Create service groups on the managed resource.

· Modify attribute of a service group.

· Delete a service group.

Note:  Modify service group name is not supported.

Directory Service Support

·         This adapter supports LDAP as a user registry on AIX only.

·         This adapter does not support Network Information Service (NIS).

License Agreement

Review and agree to the terms of the IBM Security Verify Governance Adapter License prior to using this product. The license can be viewed from the "license" folder included in the adapter package.

Contents of this Release

Adapter Version

New Features

Closed Issues

Known Issues

Known Limitations

Installation and Configuration Notes

See the IBM Security Verify Governance Adapter for UNIX and Linux Installation Guide for detailed instructions.

Corrections to Installation Guide

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

Configuration Notes

Allow $ in password

·         Add below note to Install guide at this location – Installing è Service/Target form details è On the Authentication tab

Select this check box to use $ in a password.

Allowed password maximum age limit in Linux and Solaris

·         Add below note to Install guide for erPosixMaxPwdAge attribute at this location – Reference Adapter attributes and object classes 

If password maximum age value is greater than LDAP limit value, then adapter will set LDAP limit value for password maximum age.

Installing the adapter language pack

The adapters use a separate language package from the IBM Security Identity Server. See the IBM Security Governance Adapters Documentation Center for information about installing the adapter language pack.

IBM Security Verify Governance Adapter Documentation

Enabling TLSv1.2 in Security Directory Integrator

About this task

Procedure

Apply recommended fix packs and limited availability (LA) versions on the Security Directory Integrator. See Recommended fixes for IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator (TDI) & IBM Security Directory Integrator (SDI).

After applying the appropriate updates, modify the <SOLUTION_DIRECTORY>/solution.properties file by appending the following text to the bottom of the file:

##

# # Protocols to enforce SSL protocols in a SDI Server

# # Optional values for com.ibm.di.SSL* property (TLSv1, TLSv1.1, TLSv1.2). # # This can be a multi-valued comma separated property

# # Optional values for com.ibm.jsse2.overrideDefaultProtocol property (SSL_TLSv2, TLSv1,TLSv11,TLSv12).

# # This is a single value property.

##

-

com.ibm.di.SSLProtocols=TLSv1,TLSv1.1,TLSv1.2
com.ibm.di.SSLServerProtocols=TLSv1,TLSv1.1,TLSv1.2
com.ibm.jsse2.overrideDefaultProtocol=TLSv1
com.ibm.jsse2.overrideDefaultTLS=true

Installing ILMT-Tags File

Please add new section “Installing ILMT-Tags File “under the section Installing in adapter install guide. Under Installing ILMT-Tags specify below steps.

Before you begin:

The Dispatcher must be installed

Procedure:

Copy the files from ILMT-Tags folder to the specified location:

               1. Windows: <SDI-HOME>/swidtag

               2. Unix/Linux: <SDI-HOME>/swidtag

Troubleshooting

Know Adapter Issues

Remove paragraph "Home directory permissions"

Customizing or Extending Adapter Features

IBM Security Verify Governance Adapters for Unix and Linux can be customized and/or extended. The type and method of this customization may vary from adapter to adapter. 

Refer to the IBM Security Verify Governance Adapter Development and Customization Guide 

Support for Customized Adapters

The integration to the 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

The IBM Security Verify Governance Adapter for UNIX and Linux was built and tested on the following product versions.

Adapter Installation Platform: 

This adapter installs into Security Directory Integrator (SDI) and may be installed on any platform supported by the SDI product and supported by the target system libraries or client, where applicable. IBM recommends installing SDI on each node of the IBM Security Identity Server WAS Cluster and then installing this adapter on each instance of SDI. Supported SDI versions include:

Due to continuous Java security updates that may be applied to your ISIM or PIM servers, the following SDI releases are the officially supported versions:

·         Security Directory Integrator 7.2 + 7.2.0-ISS-SDI-FP0008 + 7.2.0-ISS-SDI-LA0019

Note:  Earlier SDI supported versions may function properly, however to resolve any communication errors, you must upgrade your SDI releases to the officially supported versions.

Managed Resource:

AIX

AIX 7.1 TL 5

AIX 7.2 TL 4 or later

AIX 7.3

HP-UX

            HP-UX 11i v3

            Supported operating system modes: non-trusted, trusted non-secure

Solaris

Solaris 11

Oracle Linux

Linux 7

Linux 8

Linux 9

Red Hat Linux

At the time of the adapter 10.0.2 release, the most recent Red Hat Linux Enterprise Server releases and upgrades were:

Red Hat Linux Enterprise Server 8.4

·         Red Hat Enterprise Server supported operating system modes are standard and SE Linux

·         Red Hat Linux Enterprise Server release updates may introduce changes and/or features that are not supported by the adapter. In such a case, support for the changes or features will be added in a future release of the adapter.

SUSE Enterprise Linux Server

SUSE SLES 12.5

                        SUSE SLES 15 SP3

z System and LinuxONE

                        Red Hat Linux Enterprise Server 8.3

                        Ubuntu 20.04

                        SUSE SLES 15

Supported IBM Security Verify servers

·         IBM Security Verify Governance Identity Manager v10.0

·         IBM Security Verify Governance v10.0

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