SOA Strategy for Novell IDM Environments
Posted by William Brant on Thu, May 05, 2011 @ 01:23 PM
If you have been looking for a Novell SOA strategy to help solve both your strategic and technical considerations with your, identity integration needs, then let me introduce the GreyTower family of products that will transform your Novell Identity Management, and entitlement provisioning and reporting.
The key to GreyTower identity services is that we use an ESB (Enterprise Services Bus ) to deliver identity integration services. The GreyTower product line is built using basic bottom up SOA architecture principles .
The GreyTower Identity Services are delivered as an appliance with per-packaged endpoint integration services. Each appliance has the capability to provide integration, auditing and operational view and services for multiple end points. All Grey Tower Appliances are available as either hard or soft Appliances.
(Why Bottom up SOA works will be addressed in Separate blog)
So you ask, "what does this have to do with SOA strategy for Novell Environments?" Let me explain further. The Grey Tower line of product includes a Novell Identity Manager connector that enables a robust connection to an ESB.
This connector unsurprisingly is called GreyTower for Novell IDM, and enables you to efficiently detect eDirectory identity based events and dynamically inject those events onto an Enterprise Services Bus. This key capability to dynamically inject identity based transactions is achieved by directly connecting the eDirectory identity services to the message mediation layers (Mule MQ, ApacheMQ, WebSphereMQ etc).
The dynamic capability enables integration with our pre-packaged identity integration appliances or with any existing ESB infrastructure.