November 21, 2007

Sun Positioned in Leaders Quadrant for Web Access Management

Image Source: Gartner's Website

The picture does the talking. SUN's Access Manager is listed in the leaders quadrant in the Gartner's magic quadrant for Web Access management. Sun Access Manager is a key product in the SUN Identity Management Suite.

Give a read on what experts have to say ...

1. Gartner

2. SUN

3. News Link

com.mysql.jdbc.packetTooBigException

Did you ever get this? I got it when I was working with Sun Identity Manager. The best solution is to edit the the mysql file, my.ini (windows) to add max_allowed_packet parameter under [mysqld] section and restart the MySql server.

# SERVER SECTION
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# The following options will be read by the MySQL Server. Make sure that
# you have installed the server correctly (see above) so it reads this
# file.
#
[mysqld]

max_allowed_packet=32M

November 14, 2007

SUN's strength in Role Mining just got bigger and better - acquired Vaau

SUN just acquired VAAU.

Vaau's solution is very good at Role Mining and Role Classification, the RBACx product suite is very robust in this respect. However Vaau's solution is always dependent on some Identity management solution like SUN Identity Manager.

As I wrote in previous blog about the strength of SIM 8.0, which would be very strong in Role mining, role engineering etc.

The acquisition of Vaau really completes Sun's story around Enterprise Identity Management and Role-Compliance and will keep Sun in the forefront of Enterprise Identity Management.

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November 12, 2007

What is org.apache.jasper.JasperException?

I have been successfully running an instance of the SUN Java Identity Manager 7.1 since long. Suddenly one day after I reboot my machine I see this error.


I am very curious to know why exactly this happens with something which was working perfectly.

I shall post the solution once I find it, however if someone can throw some light on this it would be great. Thanks

November 9, 2007

Happy Diwali


Happy Diwali to one and all.

May this festival of lights bring prosperity, peace, love success for everyone.

About Diwali: The very reason why we celebrate this festival is to mark the victory of God/Good over evil. Two different stories that we hear are ...

1. Few people say, its the day when Lord Krishna along with Lordess Satyabhama fought and killed Narakasura.

2. Few others say, that Lord Rama killed Ravana and liberated Lordess Sita this day.

That is the piece of information I know :-)

Anyway have a great festival.

November 6, 2007

HP Security Handbook

Was just reading some blogs and suddenly found this.

This handbook contains a chapter on Identity management. I should say, its lucid and wonderful. To read the other contents ...