Novell Identity Manager User Manual

About this manual

This manual provides an overview of Novell Identity Manager, describing supported user roles, architecture components such as Identity Vault, JBoss, and the workflow engine. It also outlines design considerations for production environments, high‑availability, and security.

The guide details step‑by‑step procedures for configuring the user‑application environment, drivers, directory extraction layer, logging, and advanced settings like session timeout and warning alerts. Appendices cover WAR file customization and application archive configuration.

What's inside

• Overview of Identity Manager
• Designing Production Environments
• Configuring User Application Environment
• Configuring Directory Extraction Layer
• Setting Logging and Audit
• Managing Session Timeout
• Application Archive (WAR) Customization
• Using the Management Tab

Specifications

Frequently asked questions

How can the session timeout be changed?

Edit the web.xml file in the WAR’s WEB-INF folder and modify the element under to the desired number of minutes.