Doh!
As many of you know I started a brand new job doing brand old things at the beginning of January.
Well Identity Management has become much more complex over the last 5 years. At its most basic it goes like this. You have a system running Microsoft's Active Directory, you have another one running an HR Database and maybe several others all requiring user setup for credentials and access to applications/information.
In a world without an IDM solution, when a new user is hired they have to be created and set up in the HR system then someone has to create them in Active Directory, then they need to be created in the email system and so on. This can mean it takes ages to on-board a user with all the credentials and access they require and when they leave it all has to be stopped manually in every system.
IDM means that a user is created once and based on requirements and role they get created in all the places they need to be pretty much instantly. Likewise when they leave, terminating them in the Identity vault removes their access to anything and everything in one fell swoop. No muss no fuss.,
At that level it sounds pretty simple but there's so much involved in getting all those systems to talk to each other and understand each others language.
My job is keeping all that running and troubleshooting when it doesn't work as designed.
I hope I explained that properly. There's a lot more to it these days but I won't get into that right now.
Here's me in the morning
Here's me after a long day, like Monday when I worked from 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM
Panda on dudes!
Ah, good ol AD, setting up passwords/reseting passwords. Setting folders....
the cool part is that in my solution you don't even need to touch AD. All done automagically.
you sir are a genius! I can not get a job cleaning toilets here, lol.
You're a smart guy Larry. It'll come. You just need to keep pushing and if you get pushed back just push harder. :)
Thank you for your kind words.
No puns?????
I will not panda to your wishes Snee.
ah, now that's the stuff!
That sounds like a lot of work to me. I don't envy you. I'll stick with my park ranger duties, thank you very much.
I'd love to see and do some of the things you do Tamwise (not the snow crap though), I just love technology is all.
Hey, I get plenty of puns from everybody else but this is my only resource for BaD pandas.
You need to slow down...you're getting dark rings around your eyes!
Your lucky you don't live near me, I'd steal the panda bear!
Its weird that I kind of would like job? I mean I work at a call center, and I'm the "IT" guy when no one wants to go up to my boss even though I suck at real IT stuff but that just sounds so much more intersting to me.
"At that level it sounds pretty simple"
..... I tuned out well before you said that, but if you say so.
I do have experience getting programs/computers to talk to each other though. When I was radio station manager, we had a lot of old hardware and the server, production computers, my office computer, and the control room computer were set up in such a weird way even the IT guys threw up their hands at how a couple things were set up.
Luckily, we got everything working and I learned a LOT about IT from the experience, but maybe I skipped those first paragraphs because I remember to a lesser extent what this crap is like. lol
It's not exactly having computers talk to each other, that stuff is easy peasy. When you get hired by a company you as a user have to be created and set up in multiple databases like human resources, payroll, email access, file and print, productivity applications. I support a product that automatically creates and manages your user objects in all those systems from a central database.
I guess it's hard to understand if you've never had to document the manual process of setting up a user that most large companies without Identity Management have to go through.
I'm with Joe. You're going to have to repeat most of that. Although that could just be sleep deprivation.
Yay pandas!