Sun IdM Console in Action

Sun Identity Manager comes with a very useful utility which is called "console".

This utility is a command based interface that let a user to execute commands to perform actions on IdM components.

How to launch it?

Here, I am explaining this utility with NetBeans IDE 6.5 for Sun Identity Manager 8.1.

Netbeans IDE must have Sun IdM plugin installed before to launch this utility.

Steps:

1. Go to project tab.
2. Right click on IdM project as shown in pic.
3. Click on Run LH Command and you would get a text field to enter your command
4. Type 'console' and hit the trigger 'OK'.

You will get a console screen under the output window of NetBeans IDE.

Just type command 'help' and you will have a list of all available commands.

Let's try 'encrypt' command which is used to encrypt a password

Configurator> encrypt password

1E6FE9F6D24D74B2:13B0E3B8:12339160537:-7FEE|jJ8rkCnJ6th14cGmXzYi0w==

Configurator>

'encrypt' command returns an encrypted value of input string as have seen in above example.

Following are some important commands