Server Requirements
Multiple, Load-Balanced Servers
ID-Access® supports multiple, load-balanced servers.
Each server can host multiple ID-Access instances, each with its own users, managed systems, features and policies.
Server Platform
ID-Access must be installed on a Windows 2003 server.
Installing on Windows 2003 allows ID-Access to leverage client software for most types of target systems, which is available only on the "Wintel" platform. In turn, this makes it possible for ID-Access to manage passwords and accounts on target systems without installing a server-side agent.
The ID-Access server must also be configured with a web server. Since the ID-Access application is implemented as CGI executables, any web server will work. The ID-Access installation program is aware of and can automatically configure IIS, Apache and Sun ONE web servers for use with ID-Access.
ID-Access is a security server and should be locked down accordingly. Please refer to the Hitachi ID document about hardening ID-Access servers to learn how to do this.
Server Configuration
(1) Each ID-Access server is configured as follows:
- Hardware requirements:
- A Pentium-IV class or better x86 CPU (preferably hardware - VMs appear to have performance problems due to slow I/O).
- At least 1GB RAM -- more is better.
- At least 36GB SCSI hard disk, preferably RAID for reliability, preferably larger to hold more history data and log files.
- Operating system:
- Windows 2003 Server at current service packs
- The server should not be a domain controller
- The server should not belong to a domain
- Installed and tested software on the server:
- TCP/IP networking, with a static IP address and DNS name entry
- Web server (Apache/Win32, IIS or Sun ONE)
- Client software: web browser, Acrobat reader (to read the manual) native clients for the systems that ID-Access needs to interface with
- Cryptographic certificate