Identity Integration18431novdocx (en) 7 January 201018Identity Integration Section 18.1, “Overview,” on page 431 Section 18.2, “Identity Browser,” on page 434 Section 18.3, “Reports,” on page 43918.1 OverviewNovell Sentinel 6.1 provides an integration framework for identity management systems. Thisintegration provides functionality on several levels: Identity Browser provides the ability to look up the following information about a user: Contact information Accounts associated with that user Most recent authentication events Most recent access events Most recent permissions changes Identity Browser lookup from events Reports and correlation rules provide an integrated view of a user's true identity, even acrossmultiple system on which that user has separate accounts. For example, accounts likeNOVELL\testuser; > cn=testuser,ou=engineering,o=novell, and TUser@novell.com can bemapped to the actual person who owns the accounts.By displaying information about the people initiating a given action or people affected by an action,incident response times are improved and behavior-based analysis is enabled.Novell provides an optional integration with Novell Identity Manager. The screenshots anddescriptions in this section are based on Novell Identity Manager.Sentinel 6.1 synchronizes Identity information with major Identity Management systems and storeslocal copies of key information about each Identity. The following table summarizes the commonly-used information provided:Name DescriptionAccountGUID Auto-generated internal IDName User name that references the account, generally provided by the user to login.ID The numeric or other identifier that represents the account in Event Source.This ID is used for resolution when the username is not available.Authority The realm within which this account is unique. Collectors will calculate therealm based on event information.Status The status of the accountIdentityGUID A reference to the identity that owns this account
