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4.1 Prerequisites
 Verify that your system meets the system requirements listed in Chapter 6, “System
Requirements,” on page 43.
4.2 Planning
Planning is the key to having a successful implementation and deployment of Identity Manager.
 Create a development environment. It is important to have access to an Identity Manager system
to validate your Identity Manager solution. You want to do all testing and development in the
development environment before changing to the production environment. For more
information, see Chapter 1, “Setting Up a Development Environment,” on page 11.
 Create a project plan for deploying Identity Manager. The project plan includes defining your
key business processes, creating an Identity Manager solution that automates those processes,
and creating a technical implementation plan. To have a successful deployment of Identity
Manager, you must have a project plan. For more information, see Chapter 2, “Creating a Project
Plan,” on page 13.
 After you have created a project plan, use Analyzer to clean and prepare your data for
synchronization. For more information, see the Analyzer 4.0.1 for Identity Manager Administration
Guide.
4.3 Installation
 Install Analyzer. For more information, see Section 7.1, “Installing Analyzer,” on page 55.
 Install Designer. For more information, see Section 7.2, “Installing Designer,” on page 56.
 Install eDirectory. For more information, see Section 7.3, “Installing eDirectory,” on page 57.
 Install iManager. For more information, see Section 7.4, “Installing iManager,” on page 57.
 Install the Metadirectory server and drivers. For more information, see Chapter 7, “Installing
Identity Manager,” on page 55.
 Activate Identity Manager. For more information, see Chapter 8, “Activating Novell Identity
Manager Products,” on page 73.
 (Optional) Design and create entitlements for your Identity Manager system.
Entitlements are a set of defined criteria for a person or group that can be applied to multiple
drivers. After the criteria are met, the entitlements initiate an event to grant or revoke access to
business resources. Entitlements add an additional level of control and automation for granting
and revoking resources.
The key benefit of entitlements is to create and define business logic, and then apply that logic to
multiple drivers. If you need to make a change, you change it in the entitlement instead of in
each driver.
Entitlements are implemented through three agents:
 Role-Based Entitlements using the Entitlements service driver
 Workflow
 Roles Based Provisioning Module
For more information about entitlements, see the Identity Manager 4.0.1 Entitlements Guide.