External user registry for authentication

We can choose to use an external user registry instead of the default custom registry.

IBM Security Identity Manager provides a default custom registry. We do not have to use this registry for authentication. We can choose to use an external registry. An external user registry is any other registry that can be configured with Application server. We can use an existing registry or configure a new one.

• If we use the custom registry, ISIM installation program programmatically creates a security domain, enables application security, and configures it to ISIM custom registry.
• If we use an external registry, manually configure application security.

See also: Configure the Identity external user registry

External user registry example deployment

The IBM Security Identity Manager product distribution includes three documents that describe an example deployment with an external user registry. The following documents are included in the directory...

/extensions/7.0/doc/authentication/

Do these steps to access the documents:

1. Log on to the IBM Security Identity Manager virtual appliance console to open the Appliance Dashboard.

2. From the top-level menu of the Appliance Dashboard, select...
   Configure > Advanced Configuration > Custom File Management > All Files tab > directories/utilities > extensions.zip > Download

3. Extract the extensions.zip file.

4. Go to /extensions/version_number/doc/authentication/

   For example, version_number is 7.0.

Parent topic: Security