1 Introduction

This document contains information on the MyID System Interrogation Utility (SIU) for MyID^®.

The SIU is a support tool for determining whether the prerequisites stated in the MyID Installation and Configuration Guide have been satisfied.

Important: You can run the SIU independently, but its tests are also incorporated into the MyID Installation Assistant, which runs the appropriate tests at the relevant points of the installation process. The MyID Installation Assistant provides a simpler and more user-friendly way to run the SIU tests. This document describes running the SIU independently; for information on running the tests as part of the MyID Installation Assistant, see the MyID Installation Assistant section in the Installation and Configuration Guide.

The SIU files are provided in the following folder in the MyID installation package:

\Support Tools\MyIDInstallationAssistant\SIU\

Note: Running the SIU tests does not eliminate the need to consult the core product documentation provided with MyID.

The SIU performs a series of automated tests on the hardware, software, and configuration of the computers of a MyID installation. You are recommended to run the utility both before and after the installation of MyID to verify the following:

• That MyID can be installed on the computers.

• The computers have been configured correctly for use with MyID.

• The upgrade path from MyID 10.x to the current version.

The SIU supports the following system configurations:

• Single-tier and split-tier environments; for example:

  • All tiers (web, application, database) on a single server.

  • Web and application on a common server, with database on a separate server.

  • Web, application, and database, all on separate servers.

• Local testing on a single computer.

• Testing multiple MyID computers on a single domain simultaneously.

• Multiple instances of MyID clients, web servers, application servers, databases and domain controllers, on a single domain.

The SIU is provided in a highly configurable and extensible form as a PowerShell module. You can use it interactively or non-interactively, using a human-readable configuration file (examples are included). For local testing, you must edit the configuration file on each computer separately. For remote testing, you must edit the configuration file only on one master MyID computer on the domain; this computer is used to run all the tests remotely.

Test results are exported into verbose and redacted HTML 5 reports. The results include a reference to the appropriate section of the core product documentation, so that you can rectify any failures easily.

Note: This version of SIU is compatible with the current version of MyID. The SIU will be released with each recent version of MyID, so that it matches the prerequisites in the core product documentation for that version.

For prerequisites and details of installing the SIU, see the readme provided with the SIU release.