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Installing and configuring Red Hat IdM
In this section, we are going to see how to install Red Hat Identity Management Server on
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Version 6 Update 5.
Once IdM is installed, we will set up and configure the domain and DNS services and cre-
ate directory users from the command line.
Finally, we will attach the newly configured IdM domain to the RHEV infrastructure and
add directory users as RHEV-M users for the multilevel administration of your Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization infrastructure.
Refer to the identity management guide for your corresponding operating system version's
minimal prerequisites from the Red Hat documentation portal. The mentioned instructions
are tested on RHEL Version 6 Update 5. Please perform the following:
1. Install RHEL Version 6 Update 5 on a physical or virtual machine.
2. Select minimal installation during the package selection and register to the Red Hat
network or create a local Yum repository.
3. Set up static networking with a Fully Qualified Domain Name and sync the system
time with any of your NTP servers.
4. Disable the firewall and, optionally, disable SELinux if required.
5. Install the required IdM server packages by running the following command:
# yum install ipa-server bind bind-dyndb-ldap
6. Now, to set up and configure your domain with the DNS service enabled, run the
following command. Check
man ipa-server-install
for the various
command-line options that can be used when running the following
ipa-
server-install
command:
Note
We disabled the NTP service provided by IdM since we configured IdM on virtual
machines. It's not advisable to set up the NTP server on virtual machines due to
known time drift issues. The following command is interactive and will ask you a
series of questions, and most of them are self-explanatory; you can either leave it
as the default or customize it to make it relevant to your environment.
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