Preface This guide shows you how to install and get started with OpenIDM. Who Should Use This Guide This guide is written for identity management developers and administrators who build, deploy, and maintain OpenIDM services for their organizations. This guide covers the tasks you need to quickly get OpenIDM running on your system. As you read this guide, you will see how OpenIDM reconciles customer identity data to ensure accurate information across disparate resources within an organization. You will also read about what else OpenIDM can do, in the areas of provisioning, self-service workflows, and password management. You will also read about how OpenIDM connects to a variety of remote data stores, with links to detailed documentation. For example, engineers might access their systems through Active Directory accounts. Those same engineers might need to update their information in a Human Resources database, stored in a separate LDAP directory. With OpenIDM, you can keep those user identities synchronized, so each engineer only has to update their data once. Accessing Documentation Online Open Identity Platform Community publishes comprehensive documentation online: The Open Identity Platform Community Documentation offers a large and increasing number of up-to-date, practical articles that help you deploy and manage Open Identity Platform software. Open Identity Platform product documentation, such as this document, aims to be technically accurate and complete with respect to the software documented. It is visible to everyone and covers all product features and examples of how to use them. Joining the Open Identity Platform Community Visit the community resource center where you can find information about each project, download nightly builds, browse the resource catalog, ask and answer questions on the forums, find community events near you, and of course get the source code as well. Getting Support and the Contacting Open Identity Platform Community Open Identity Platform Community Approved Vendors provide support services, professional services, trainings, and partner services to assist you in setting up and maintaining your deployments. Getting Started Getting Started With OpenIDM