Red Hat Security: Identity Management and Authentication

IdM provides native tools to back up and restore the topology. You can use different strategies to mitigate a server or data loss disaster scenario.

In a server loss scenario, the IdM topology loses one or more servers. You can mitigate this type of disaster by configuring a redundant topology.

You can configure a virtual machine (VM) snapshot schedule of one replica with the full certificate authority (CA) services to keep a consistent state of the server and data. This might help you recover from a total infrastructure loss scenario.

In a data loss scenario, the IdM topology loses data due to an accidental operation. You can mitigate this type of disaster by configuring backups.

After recovering IdM servers, you must ensure that clients have updated data to authenticate to the topology. In some scenarios, you might need to clear the cache and restart services.

You can review system and service logs to identify issues with IdM services. You can also increase the debug level of a service or command to provide more detailed output of the process.

You can use tools such as sssctl config-check to verify configuration file ownership and permissions. This tool can also find typographic errors in section and option names.