2.10 Viewing Version Information

The Version Discovery Tool enables you to do the following:

2.10.1 View a Hierarchical Display of Version Information

  1. In iManager click Identity Manager > Identity Manager Overview, then click Search to find your driver set.

  2. Click Information, in the Identity Manager Overview screen.

    Information button

    You can also select Identity Manager Utilities > Versions Discovery, then browse to and select the driver set, then click OK.

  3. View a top-level or unexpanded display of versioning information.

    Unexpanded view of servers and drivers

    The unexpanded hierarchical view displays the following:

    • The eDirectory tree that you are authenticated to

    • The driver set that you selected

    • Servers that are associated with the driver set

      If the driver set is associated with two or more servers, you can view Identity Manager information on each server.

    • Drivers

  4. View version information related to servers by expanding the server icon.

    Versioning information in an expanded server icon

    The expanded view of a top-level server icon displays the following:

    • Last log time

    • Version of Identity Manager that is running on the server

  5. View version information related to drivers by expanding the driver icon.

    Versioning information in an expanded driver icon

    The expanded view of a top-level driver icon displays the following:

    • The driver name

    • The driver module (for example, com.novell.nds.dirxml.driver.nds.DriverShimImpl)

    The expanded view of a server under a driver icon displays the following:

    • The driver ID

    • The version of the instance of the driver running on that server

2.10.2 View the Version Information as a Text File

Identity Manager publishes versioning information to a file. You can view this information in text format. The textual representation is the same information contained in the hierarchical view.

  1. In iManager click Identity Manager > Identity Manager Overview, then click Search to find your driver set.

  2. Click Information in the Identity Manager Overview screen.

    Information button

    You can also select Identity Manager Utilities > Versioning Discovery, then browse to and select the driver set, then click Information.

  3. In the Versioning Discovery Tool dialog box, click View.

    Versioning discovery tool

The information is displayed as a text file in the Report Viewer window.

Report viewer

2.10.3 Saving Version Information

You can save version information to a text file on your local or network drive.

  1. In iManager click Identity Manager > Identity Manager Overview, then click Search to find your driver set.

  2. Click Information in the Identity Manager Overview screen.

    Information button

    You can also select Identity Manager Utilities > Versioning Discovery, then browse to and select the driver set, then click Information.

  3. In the Versioning Discovery Tool dialog box, click Save As.

    Versioning discovery tool

  4. In the File Download dialog box, click Save.

  5. Navigate to the desired directory, type a filename, then click Save.

    Identity Manager saves the data to a text file.