Migrating NIS Servers to PowerBroker Identity Services Enterprise Edition
BeyondTrust Software provides a migration tool to facilitate the migration of user accounts from NIS to PowerBroker Identity Services, Enterprise Edition. This tool can import NIS maps and associate Linux/UNIX users with existing AD user accounts. The migration tool can automatically create PowerBroker Identity Services Enterprise Edition Cells to contain the ID mapping information previously stored in the NIS server.
PowerBroker Identity Services Enterprise Edition Operations Dashboard
PowerBroker provides event management as well as operational and historical reporting and analytics. The PowerBroker Identity Services, Enterprise Edition event log uses policy-driven, exception-based monitoring that alerts you in near real-time when policy exceptions occur. The event log also lets you customize security thresholds and set up automated processes to address the alerts.
Configuration Settings for Failed Sudo Events
PowerBroker Identity Services, Enterprise Edition includes all the necessary components for event aggregation with a Microsoft SQL or MySQL database.
The security and identity event information provided by the SIEM tools easily rolls up into a PowerBroker compliance report. The PowerBroker Identity Services, Enterprise Edition reports allow you to quickly and cost-effectively demonstrate regulatory compliance across your entire mixed network.
The influx of Linux and Mac desktops to a Windows environment can create management anxiety for organizations. Without an easy management path through Active Directory, administrators are often faced with hacking together home-grown solutions or setting up operating system-specific directory services, adding additional cost and complexity to their mixed environment.
PowerBroker Identity Services, Enterprise Edition eliminates the pain and costs associated with managing Linux and Mac desktops by extending Active Directory control to non-Windows desktops. Extensive settings for managing users and computers as well as native tool support make Likewise Enterprise the best solution for non-Windows desktop management. Close relationships with operating system vendors ensure ease of use.
PowerBroker Identity Services Enterprise Edition Treats Mac Users like Mac Users
A close developer relationship with Apple allows BeyondTrust to natively integrate with Apple's Workgroup Manager application. Group policies, controls that granularly manage user and computer settings, appear as intended by Apple. No schema changes are required to the Mac operating system when using PowerBroker Identity Services, Enterprise Edition. PowerBroker Identity Services Enterprise Edition does not require a separate directory service beyond Active Directory, removing the need for additional servers and other costly hardware.
BeyondTrust also closely partners with Linux desktop providers such as Ubuntu, Red Hat, and Oracle. The technical partnerships ensure that BeyondTrust is continually focused on ways to improve ease of use for managing Linux desktops.
Simplified Administrative Activities with Native Tool Support
BeyondTrust provides native tool support for simplified administrative activities so that familiar interfaces are seen when administering PowerBroker. For Windows, the interfaces are the MMC and RSAT-ADDS or ADUC. For Linux, the interfaces are common command-line tools. For group policy, Likewise extends the native Windows Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) and Group Policy Object Editor to allow dedicated settings and reporting for non-Windows systems.
Extensive Group Policy Management Tools
PowerBroker Identity Services, Enterprise Edition provides extensive user and computer management settings through the use of group policies. PowerBroker Identity Services, Enterprise Edition includes more than 100 policies that are custom-made for non-Windows computers. The policies can be used to enforce security settings for users or groups.
Organizations such as BAE Systems, Alcoa, and Johns Hopkins University have selected PowerBroker Identity Services, Enterprise Edition to manage Linux, Unix, and Mac desktops in their mixed network.
Are you using PowerBroker technology somewhere in your environment? Chances are yes. PowerBroker Identity Services, Open Edition and PowerBroker Identity Services, Enterprise Edition have a combined installation base of over 100,000 users taking advantage of the solution directly from Likewise. Thousands more may be using BeyondTrust technology through a partner product such as VMware, which licenses the BeyondTrust Identity Service for the directory services in VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi). BeyondTrust Identity Services is the main component in both PowerBroker Identity Services, Open Edition and PowerBroker Identity Services, Enterprise Edition.