
Learn ForgeRock OpenIDM from architecture to installation of 6.5, explore REST APIs, and master admin vs developer roles, plus self-service and application onboarding with connectors.
Explore basic terminology in ForgeRock OpenIDM: identity as a user object or manage object, reconciliation from target systems, provisioning to targets, synchronization, repository, and REST interfaces.
Explore the OpenIDM modular architecture, detailing five layers—from client to the modularity framework—and the roles of core services, interface, infrastructure module, and OSGi and servlet components.
Explore the modularity framework with OSGi 6.0 and Apache Felix, showing how OpenIDM 6.5 divides into bundles and a service registry. See how Jetty enables RESTful access via configurable ports.
Explore BPMN basics, including business process model and notation, start and end events, activities, tasks, gateways, and sequence flows within OpenIDM infrastructure.
Discover quartz scheduler and task scanner in ForgeRock OpenIDM, and how the core scheduler framework uses simple and chrono triggers to schedule and run jobs.
Explore how the repository stores user data via an embedded ForgeRock directory and why production requires external databases like MySQL or SQL Server; only one external repository is supported.
Explore core services at the heart of OpenIDM, covering object model, manage objects, system objects, mappings, and synchronization, plus Json processing and RESTful interfaces within a modular architecture.
Explore the OpenIDM RESTful interface, revealing how REST APIs expose services like reconciliation, synchronization, and CRUD operations, and how to use HTTP methods, endpoints, and JSON payloads to manage resources.
Since in new versions of windows Vbox 5.2 might not get compatible so the same can be done on Virtual Box 6.1 as well.
Edit the hosts file with administrator privileges to map a domain to a local IP, then verify resolution with ping, preparing the environment for JDK, MySQL, and OpenIDM installation.
Download and install MySQL 5.7.17 64-bit as the external database for ForgeRock OpenIDM. Unzip and set up using WinRAR, following archive sources and drive links provided.
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Attach a MySQL database as an OpenIDM repository by replacing the embedded directory, adding the MySQL connector jar, and configuring data source and repo jdbc files with boot.properties for localhost:3306.
Configure SQL Developer to connect OpenIDM to MySQL by installing SQL Developer, adding the MySQL JDBC driver, and creating a ForgeRock OpenIDM connection to view schemas, tables, and manage users.
Configure OpenIDM mail settings using a testing mail server like Mailtrap.io by supplying host, port, and credentials, then enable and test mail delivery when creating users.
Explore sending email via the openidm rest api using postman. Learn to configure base url, external resource, json body, headers, and authentication to test email delivery.
Configure OpenIDM to use the Gmail server smtp.gmail.com, set a sender and receiver Gmail account, enable TLS on port 587, and apply basic authentication for sending test emails.
Configure self-service user registration in ForgeRock OpenIDM by enabling the sign-up page, setting email as identity, and adding out-of-box attributes and security questions, with email validation.
Enable password reset for user accounts and send verification emails to allow password recovery. Configure mail settings and understand how to retrieve usernames if forgotten.
Learn to configure a Google social id provider in ForgeRock OpenIDM for signup, including client ID and client secret, OAuth redirect URLs, and automatic user creation from Google accounts.
Enable and configure reCAPTCHA for registration and password reset in ForgeRock OpenIDM, obtain site and secret keys, choose version 2 or 3, and test verification.
Learn how to add a country drop down in ForgeRock OpenIDM by editing the manage.json in admin console, using Java enumeration to define options, and validating changes with a restart.
Learn reconciliation by fetching data from CSV or LDAP into OpenIDM, map source fields to OpenIDM attributes, and apply correlation, linking, and action rules to create or update users.
Learn to create a CSV-to-openidm user mapping, map core attributes, set a default password, and use a transformation script to split multiple roles for proper reconciliation.
Learn how to reconcile users in ForgeRock OpenIDM by configuring mappings, association rules, correlation queries, and action rules, then run reconciliation to create or update users.
Explore how OpenIDM handles reconciliation through source and target recon, mapping synchronization situations to actions like create or update, and diagnosing errors such as missing, absent, or unassigned.
Identity and Access Management (IAM) [A part of Cyber Security] market is estimated to grow from USD 8.1 billion in 2016 to USD 14.8 billion by 2021, at an estimated Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 12.9% between 2016 and 2021.
The major factors that are expected to be driving the IAM market are the growing emphasis on compliance management and increasing trend of mobility have driven the demand for IAM solutions in various sectors. Employees can use their devices from different locations these days. Moreover, the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) approach is increasing the usage of mobile applications. Changing scenarios and distributed IT environments have made organizations susceptible to cyber threats, thereby fueling the demand for IAM solutions.
About ForgeRock:
ForgeRock is a multinational identity and access management software company headquartered in San Francisco, U.S.A. The company develops commercial open source identity and access management products for internet of things, customer, cloud, mobile, and enterprise environments. Fran Rosch is the CEO of ForgeRock. ForgeRock also has offices in Bristol, London, Grenoble, Vancouver (USA), Oslo, Munich, Paris, Sydney, and Singapore. ForgeRock has raised $140 million in venture funding from Accel Partners, Foundation Capital, Meritech Capital Partners, and KKR.
When Sun Microsystems was acquired by Oracle in January 2010, Sun’s open source identity and access management software was scheduled for phase out in favor of Oracle’s in-house product. ForgeRock was founded in Norway by a group of ex-Sun employees in February 2010 to fork the code and continue to develop Sun’s software.
ForgeRock provides digital identity management through its primary product, the ForgeRock Identity Platform. The ForgeRock Identity Platform includes
Access Management (based on the OpenAM open source project),
Identity Management (based on the OpenIDM open source project),
Directory Services (based on the OpenDJ open source project), and
Identity Gateway (based on the OpenIG open source project).
About OpenIDM 6.5.3[latest]
•OpenIDM is an identity management system written in the Java programming language.
•The old OpenIDM source code is available under the Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL). OpenIDM is designed with flexibility in mind, leverages JavaScript as default scripting language to define business rules during provisioning.
•All capabilities of OpenIDM exposes RESTful interfaces. As an integration layer, OpenIDM leverages the Identity Connectors (adopted by ForgeRock as OpenICF) and has a set of default connectors.
ForgeRock launched the OpenIDM project in October 27, 2010 at GOSCON in Portland following a 6-month internal development process.
OpenAM
•OpenAM is an open-source access management, entitlements and federation server platform.
•It was sponsored by ForgeRock until 2016. Now it is supported by Open Identity Platform Community.
•OpenAM originated as OpenSSO, an access management system created by Sun Microsystems and now owned by Oracle Corporation.
OpenDJ
•OpenDJ is an LDAPv3-compliant directory service, developed for the Java platform, providing a high-performance, highly available, and secure store for the identities managed by your organization.
•Its easy installation process, combined with the power of the Java platform, makes OpenDJ the simplest and fastest directory to deploy and manage. OpenDJ directory server comes with plenty of tools and also offers REST access to directory data over HTTP.
•OpenDJ is free to download, evaluate, and use for developing your applications and solutions. You can obtain and modify the source code to build your own version.