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Friday Dec 19, 2008

Update: MySQL & Sun Identity Manager, Playing Together Nicely (again)

As many Sun Identity Manager followers know MySQL was dropped as a supported production database due to a particular bug (MySQL 9021 ) that caused Sun Identity Manager performance to drop below the high standards we expect. This being the case MySQL was unfortunately dropped for sometime whilst we patientenly waited for the fix.  Imagine the pain this caused since as we all know MySQL now being a Sun technology this was well, rather embarrassing for all involved.  If customers want to use the whole Sun stack we don't want to prevent them, this is of course natural!

 I am pleased to announce that with the arrive of v8.0 patch4 Identity Manager now supports MySQL 5.0.60SP1 Enterprise Edition as a production repository. It needs underlining just so that we're all completely sure on this, MYSQL IS SUPPORTED once again :)

The details of the fix from the patch 4 release notes,The Identity Manager Repository has been changed to work around MySQL defect 9021.  The Repository's MysqlDataStore now generates a separate, named JOIN for each attribute
condition. (Previously, the MysqlDataStore in some cases used SUBSELECTs and the EXISTS
predicate.)

What else is new in patch4?

 Reading the release notes as one should always do prior to installing patch updates ;) we see a bunch of interesting improvements to Identity Manager incuding the ability to run the Windows Active Directory PasswordSync functionality on a Windows Server 2008 Domain Controller both 32 and 64 bit platforms.  In addition the Windows Identity Manager Gateway (needed for ADSI interop),  is now supported in 64bit environments.

Great stuff.  Going to go download MySQL 5.0.60SP1 right now :)


Comments[3]

Comments:

Good to see the official support.

But one question is:

Should customer purcahse both IDM8 and MySQL ent licenses and support service to gain the official support ?

For those who want to pay a penny to Sun, is it legal to download both IDM8 and MySQL ent binary to use ?

For those JES whole stack subscriber, can they use IDM8, MySQL ent with support included in JES subscription ?

If you don't have the answer, please refer to Sun internal, I think it is very important issue and customer need to know.

Posted by An ex Sun now freelancer on December 19, 2008 at 08:49 AM CET #

Hi,

It is legal to download and use IDM8 and MySQL binaries and use them together yes.

I'll certainly ask your questions relating to paid-for customer support to product marketing and get back to you by re-posting to this comment.

Cheers

Posted by Paul Walker on December 19, 2008 at 09:05 AM CET #

Dear An ex Sun now freelancer,

Here's the response from marketing;

Q. "Should customer purcahse both IDM8 and MySQL ent licenses and support service to gain the official support ?

A. Support for IDM is included if the product is purchased through a subscription (i.e. the Identity suite or JES). If the perpetual license is purchased for IDM, a separate support contract needs to be purchased for official support. I'm not sure about the MySQL license, but I'm guessing the enterprise license comes with support; I would check w/ the MySQL folks to verify.

Q. For those who want to pay a penny to Sun, is it legal to download both IDM8 and MySQL ent binary to use ?

A. The answer is yes for IDM.

Q. For those JES whole stack subscriber, can they use IDM8, MySQL ent with support included in JES subscription ?

A. Yes. Support is included w/ a subscription license.

Posted by 192.18.1.36 on January 07, 2009 at 03:41 PM CET #

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