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The virtual appliance and standalone deployment of Symantec (CA) Identity Suite allow for redirecting authentication for the J2EE tier application through Symantec SSO or directly to an Active...

On Linux OS, there are two (2) device drivers that provide entropy "noise" for components that require encryption, e.g. the /dev/random and the /dev/urandom device drivers. The /dev/random is a...

Monitoring use-cases within solutions that use various logs can be onerous when there is "noise" or low-value events in the logs. For provisioning use-cases, we prefer to focus on the "CrUD"...

In this blog example, we will explore expanding the ability of Virtual Appliances to use X11 programs where possible instead of requiring a 2nd server to host the solutions' client tools. We will...

"DSA is attempting to start after a long outage, perform a recovery procedure before starting" Challenge:   The IMPD (Identity Manager Provisioning Directory) Data DSAs have been offline...

Ensure the hostname entry is a FQDN or alias. It can not be an IP address if MS Exchange is to be managed through this connector, due to conflict with Kerberos authentication and IP addresses....

One of the challenges that IAM/IAG solutions may have is using single thread processing for select endpoints. For the CA/Symantec Identity Management solution, before IM r14.3cp2, we lived with a...

A very common challenge we see is the modification of the CA/Symantec Connector Server Service(s) startup order for the embedded C++ (CCS) Connector. This CCS connector service on MS Windows OS...

A useful feature with CA Directory for WAN latency challenges is the HUB model. This model allows sync of the data to occur to distant peer Multi-write DATA DSA, but does NOT impact the external...

The prior releases of CA Identity Manager / Identity Suite have a bottleneck with the provisioning tier. The top tier of the solution stack, Identity Manager Environment (IME/J2EE...

Restore processes may be done with snapshots-in-time for both databases and directories. We wished to provide clarity of the restoration steps after a snapshot-in-time is utilized for a directory....

CA API Gateway (ssg) is used to manage SaaS endpoints/applications for the CA/Symantec Identity Suite solution. One of the challenges of appliances and Docker containers is the underlying 3rd party...