Novell Identity Manager is an event driven identity management solution that automates user provisioning and password management throughout the user identity lifecycle.

Novell Identity manager can provide first-day access to new users, allowing or restricting access as necessary across all systems, and synchronizing multiple passwords into a single, strong password.

Features

Novell Identity Manager offers you the following capabilities:
  • Automated provisioning
  • Role-based identity administration
  • Automated approval workflows*
  • User self-service
  • Password management
  • Visual configuration and policy design tools
  • Novell Audit Starter Pack for centralized logging and reporting of identity-management activities

Please see more about provisioning, change propagation, de-provisioning and password synchronization in the Identity Management section.

Benefits

With Identity Manager you can:
  • Automate complex provisioning processes to provide immediate access to resources
  • Assign resources to users based on business roles and policies
  • Synchronize passwords to provide a single password to all systems
  • Enable users to retrieve or reset their own passwords with Web-based self-service capabilities
  • Create and enforce strong, system-wide password policies
  • Enforce compliance
  • Receive alerts when inappropriate access is granted
  • Reduce cost and complexity