Do we need "Centrify"?
807573Jun 25 2009 — edited Jul 2 2009Hi, we are in the process of doing our Identity Management stack.
So far we're working with DSEE 6.3.1, IDM 8.2 and ISW and so on - a Sun DSEE Stack.
But we have a consultant who wants to keep pushing Centrify on us.
I can't actually understand what Centrify will give us, given that we are not going to use AD for UNIX/Linux/OSX authentication and so on.
AD will end up being just a peer in the realm such that it will handle DS services for MS servers and apps, but not UNIX.
So how do I explain that we do not need Centrify. I also understand that Centrify needs to have a few changes made to AD wrt schema, objectclasses and so on.
Can someone please who is not a marketing weasel explain why I want/do not want Centrify so I can kill it off if we do not need it?
When I try to look on the web for some technical advice regarding the placement of the product in a Solaris world, the feeling I get is that it is all marketing mumbojumbo and I just want the facts!
rachel