OpenText Identity Governance includes prerequisites for installation and for authentication.
Review the following items that affect the installation of OpenText Identity Governance:
You can install OpenText Identity Governance and OSP in a stateless cluster. For more information about the installation requirements, see Section 2.3.4, Ensuring High Availability or Load Balancing for OpenText Identity Governance.
The OpenText Identity Governance server must include the supported versions of Zulu OpenJDK and Apache Tomcat application server.
For best performance, do not install OpenText Identity Governance on the same server as the databases; however, the database server and the OpenText Identity Governance server must run in the same subnetwork.
Do not install OpenText Identity Governance or its database on a server that is already running components for Identity Manager. For example, do not install on the same server as Identity Manager Home and Provisioning Dashboard.
You must use Latin-1 characters in the installation path.
(Optional) If you want to enable auditing for OpenText Identity Governance using TLS, and if you want the OpenText Identity Governance installation to automatically retrieve the audit server certificate into the OpenText Identity Governance trust-store, you must ensure the following before you begin the Identity Governance installation:
Configure the auditing server to use TLS
Ensure the auditing server is running
Review the following prerequisites for authentication to OpenText Identity Governance:
Do not use mixed case domains. OpenText Identity Governance utilizes OAuth2 for authentication. OAuth2 does not support mixed case domains. For more information, see RCF 3986 Section 6.2.1 Simple String Comparison on the Datatracker ietf doc page.
To use an identity service as your data source for OpenText Identity Governance users, ensure that you have Active Directory or eDirectory already installed. For more information, see Adding OpenText Identity Governance Users
in OpenText Identity Governance User and Administration Guide.
To integrate OpenText Identity Governance with Identity Manager, the Identity Manager component must already be installed and configured with OSP.
Ensure that the communication ports that you want to use are open in the firewall. For more information, see Section A.0, Ports Used in OpenText Identity Governance.