Do target system upgrades mandate Hitachi ID Management Suite upgrades?
The connectors provided with Hitachi ID Management Suite generally use standard, relatively static APIs (application programming interfaces), are not normally impacted by upgrades to operating systems and application platforms on target systems. Since local agents are not required on most types of target systems, and since administrative APIs tend to remain unchanged for long periods, or at least backwards compatible across multiple product versions and service packs, in most cases no update is required on the Hitachi ID Management Suite server to support upgrades on target systems. Example target system types where upgrades do not require a change on the Hitachi ID Management Suite server include upgrading a Unix server, applying a service pack to Windows domain controllers or upgrading an LDAP directory. In rare cases, administrative APIs are either retired or changed by a product vendor, in a way that makes them no longer backwards compatible. In these cases, Hitachi ID Management S
