IM InfoSphere Identity Insight, Version 8.0

System Preferences tab

Use this tab to configure system preferences for your Visualizer sessions. Configuring preferences here only affects the system settings for your local Visualizer client. If you change any of these settings, exit, reopen, and log in to the Visualizer to see the changes.

File Paths section
Specify the default file paths that the Visualizer uses to load UMF files and open the Centrifuge Desktop graphing tool. If you use the Centrifuge Desktop application to visualize entity graphs and entity data, enter the full path to the application. By entering the full path here, you can access Centrifuge directly from the Visualizer.
Minimum Score Values section
Define the values for the minimum likeness score thresholds that you can select from when you create a Find by Resolution query or an attribute alert generator.
By default, this section contains the recommended values for each of these thresholds. These recommended values are conservative values, intended to return fewer false positives. You can redefine the values to suit your goals.
Generally, the higher you set the value of a minimum score threshold, the fewer the results that are returned. The lower the value is set, the more results that are returned.
Is Entity
Enter the lowest resolution score that defines when the search entity defined in a Find by Resolution query or an attribute alert generator and an entity in the entity database are the same entity.
The default value is 100. This default means that when the search entity and an identity are compared, if the resolution score is 100, the entity returned is the same as the search entity.
Close Entity Match
Enter the lowest resolution score that defines when there is a "close match" between the search entity defined by a Find by Resolution query or an attribute alert generator and an entity in the entity database.
The default value is 85. This default means that when the search entity and an entity from the entity database are compared, if the minimum resolution score is equal to or greater than 85, but less than the Is Entity score, the entity returned is a close entity match to the search entity.
Good Relationship
Enter the lowest score that defines when there is a close or strong relationship between the search entity defined by a Find by Resolution query or an attribute alert generator and an entity in the entity database. The value represents the strength of the relationship.
The default value is 35, which means that when the search entity and an entity from the entity database are compared, if the minimum resolution score is equal to or greater than 35, the relationship between the two is good.
Any Relationship
Enter the lowest score that defines when there is any relationship between the search entity defined by a Find by Resolution query or an attribute alert generator and an entity in the entity database. (The value represents the strength of the relationship.)
The default value is 1. This default means that when the search entity and an entity from the entity database are compared, if the minimum resolution score is equal to or greater than 1, the two have a relationship.
Alert Display Filter Settings section
Use this section to configure the default alert filter settings that affect which alert summaries display in the Alert Summary window. Each time you open a new Alert Summary window, the system uses these default settings.
Maximum alerts to display in alert list
Enter a number that represents the highest number of alerts to display in the Alert List table of the Alert Summary window.
The default filter value is 100, which means that, by default, only the first 100 alerts of any selected alert summary display.
Minimum relationship score
Enter the lowest relationship score to filter unassigned role alert summaries lower than that score from the display in your Alert Summary window.
For example, to only see role alert summaries where the relationship score between the two compared entities is equal to or greater than 50, enter 50 in this field.
The default is 0, meaning that all alert summaries for your Visualizer Analyst group that are currently in the "Unassigned" status display by default.
Number of days of alerts to display (including today)
Enter a number 1-99 that indicates the number of days of alerts from the current date to display. Keep in mind that this "day" is a full calendar day, which starts at 0:00:00 and ends at 23:59:59.
The number starts with the current date and counts backwards. If you want to see alerts generated within the last 90 days (the current day and 89 days prior), enter 90.
The default value is 99, meaning that you see alerts generated today and 98 calendar days before today.
Include filtered role alerts check box
(Optional) Select this check box to display all unassigned role alerts generated, even those alerts below the minimum alert threshold that is specified in the role alert rule configuration. This check box only displays if your system administrator has enabled this feature.
The default selection is cleared, meaning that only role alerts currently unassigned that meet or exceed the minimum alert threshold (as defined in the role alert rule) display in the Visualizer.
Miscellaneous Settings section
Use this section to enable hover help and the exit confirmation window.
Enable Tooltips
If ToolTips are enabled, whenever your cursor hovers over a toolbar icon or over an area where extra information is available, hover help displays. By default, ToolTips are enabled.
Show Exit Confirmation Dialog:
This option determines whether the system displays a confirmation dialog when you exit the Visualizer.
  • Select this check box to confirm your choice to exit the Visualizer every time. The default setting is selected.
  • Clear this check box to exit the Visualizer without displaying the Exit Confirmation dialog every time you choose to exit and log out of the Visualizer.


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Last updated: 2009