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  • 1.  ISIM devOps with automated configuration

    Posted Tue June 16, 2020 09:55 AM
    Hello All , We are looking to automate configuration /deployments for ISIM, I see multiple IAC / automation resources such as  cookbooks and Ansible playbooks for ISAM , are there any such resources for ISIM that we can refer to get started.

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    Eswari Gupta
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  • 2.  RE: ISIM devOps with automated configuration

    Posted Tue June 16, 2020 02:14 PM
    I am afraid there is not much help to get here currently. 

    Let me explain a little about why it is not so - the main reason is that a product like ISIM is much much functional richer than ISAM - basically you build your security procedures into an ERP like system with a lot of different entities. You can compare the ISIM Java apidoc to what you have available in ISAM REST API (and the ISIM java apidoc is not even complete).

    So to do what you want you need to understand the inner structure of ISIM (its "model") - you can basically learn that from the schema documentation (ftp://ftp.support.lotus.com/software/security/products/isim/im/6.0.0.20/isim_database_schema_reference_pdf_60.pdf - 260 pages to read) and the apidoc - the starting point for building Configuration Items is the ObjectProfileCategory(https://www.stephen-swann.co.uk/javadoc/sim6.0/com/ibm/itim/dataservices/model/ObjectProfileCategory.html).

    There has been added a few new things to the newest versions (6/7.02) in terms of new REST apis - but there is currently no way around using the Java apis if you want to work with the full system functionality.

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    Franz Wolfhagen
    IAM Technical Architect for Europe - Certified Consulting IT Specialist
    IBM Security Expert Labs
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