Express (Distributed operating systems), v8.0 > Secure applications and their environment > Authenticate users > Select a registry or repository > Manage realms in a federated repository > Virtual member manager


Component overview

This section provides an overview of virtual member manager and its features.

Virtual member manager provides a secure facility to support customer's basic organizational entity management needs. Organizational entities refer to entities that are common to most organizations, such as people, login accounts, business units, security roles, and business roles.

Many products and customer applications have their own components for managing organizational entities. They have different models and repositories of profile information with varying levels of security and functional capabilities. In turn this causes integration problems and the inability to provide a single unified view of the information. Even the terminology differs, from the security domain that deals with users, accounts, security roles, to business applications that need profile information.

Virtual member manager provides a model of the organizational entities that serves the basic needs of a variety of applications, and hides from them the disparate repositories that can be used underneath.

Virtual member manager performs only limited information integration and does not perform any synchronization among multiple repositories. Virtual member manager provides a uniform abstraction layer that can be used to manage and to securely access the information on organizational entities. In some deployments, products such as WebSphere Information Integrator and IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator that provide advanced synchronization and integration capabilities can be used with virtual member manager.

Virtual member manager is available for all the different editions of the WAS. The virtual member manager user registry provides user registry functions and allows WebSphere security to be enabled using virtual member manager. Virtual member manager can also be used in a WAS environment in combination with other user registry adapters (for example, WAS LDAP, WAS OS, and custom user registry).


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