B.1 Configuring the ActivIdentity Card Management System

For this deployment scenario, ActivIdentity Card Management System is being used for the card management system. The CMS driver runs on the ActivIdentity Card Management System. The installation of the Card Management System was done previously. See Section 3.2, Installing the Card Management System.

You must complete the following steps:

  1. Stop IIS.

  2. Locate the /cmsevent directory inside the Remote Loader directory created by the CMS Driver Install.

  3. Copy the following files from the /cmsevent directory to the CMS Directory/cms_portal/WEB-INF/lib directory:

    • novellplugin.jar

    • aims-spi.jar

  4. Copy the following file from the /cmsevent directory to the CMS Directory/cms_portal/WEB-INF/conf directory:

    • novellplugin.properties

    NOTE:This file contains a path to c:\novell\remoteloader\cmsevent\event. This path must match the event files directory that is configured for the CMS driver. If you accepted all of the default settings during the CMS driver installation, the paths will match.

  5. Edit the CMS Directory/cms_portal/WEB-INF/conf/eventnotificationplugins.properties file.

    1. Locate the plugins = line near the top of the file. Add ,novell_plugin at the end of this line.

      For example, plugins = piv_notify,novell_plugin

    2. Add the following two lines at the end of the file:

      • # Novell Event Notification Plugin
      • novell_plugin.class=com.novell.nds.dirxml.novellplugin.NovellCMSEventPlugin

  6. Edit the CMS Directory/cms_portal/WEB-INF/conf/log4j.properties file.

    1. Add the following lines at the end of the List categories for logging section of this file:

      • log4j.category.com.novell.nds.dirxml.novellplugin =INFO, novellplugin
      • log4j.additivity.com.novell.nds.dirxml.novellplugin = false

    2. Add the following lines at the end of this file (replace occurrences of CMS Dir below with the directory where CMS is installed):

      • # NOVELL
      • #---------------------------
      • log4j.appender.novellplugin = org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
      • log4j.appender.novellplugin.File = CMS Dir/logs/novell_plugin.log
      • log4j.appender.novellplugin.MaxFileSize = 10MB
      • log4j.appender.novellplugin.MaxBackupIndex = 20
      • log4j.appender.novellplugin.layout = org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
      • log4j.appender.novellplugin.layout.ConversionPattern = %d{ISO8601} %-5p [%t] %c{1} %M - %m%n
      • log4j.appender.credProviders.File= CMS Dir/logs/credProviders.log
      • log4j.appender.InitializationManager.File= CMS Dir/logs/InitializationManager.log

  7. Start IIS.

HINT:In order for CMS notification events, such as Suspend/Resume, to be properly propagated to the IDM system, the CMS system needs to have card binding properly configured. For example, where the CMS directory is Microsoft Active Directory in the CMS Portal, the setting for Card Binding under the Configuration/Customization/Directories section should be set to distinguishedName.