ISIM Limitations

Security Identity Manager limitations can affect how ISIM virtual appliance behaves or processes information that is received from Security Identity Manager. In the same way, Security Identity Manager limitations can affect how ISIM virtual appliance capabilities work.

IBM Security Identity Manager virtual appliance limitations

• Characters other than English are not supported in the Comment fields of the following IBM Security Identity Manager virtual appliance pages:
  • Snapshot
  • Firmware Settings
  • Support Files

• The following file name display issues occur in several languages when a snapshot with a long file name is uploaded in ISIM virtual appliance:

  • The text in the Comment field is truncated.

  • The file name gets truncated in the Snapshot table.

Security Identity Manager limitations

• The Data Tier and Reporting components must be installed separately or must be outside ISIM virtual appliance.
  • IBM Cognos reporting components are outside of ISIM virtual appliance.
  • Supports DB2, IBM Security Directory Server, and Oracle as the ISIM data store on the external data tier.

• Three network adapters can be used.

• Custom adapters are supported on external Security Directory Integrator.

• Security Identity Manager mobile is supported.

Parent topic: Troubleshooting virtual appliance problems