Symantec Identity Governance and Administration Stability

YC
Manager at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

The solution's stability is difficult to gauge as I did not explore that in my use cases. 

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it_user351660 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Systems Analyst/Tech Lead at Loblaw Companies Limited

It has been stable. We do have an issue with the task persistence table that's an audit log in the data base. If unchecked it can grow to ridiculous sizes, which will cause the whole system to hang. The database will not be full, it's just that the table is so large that it can't write to old records anymore. It typically updates the status of old tasks. In the previous version that we had, there were issues with the clean-up task for that, which flat-out would not work. Since upgrading to 12.5, that task works. So we run it every week to keep only two, three weeks in that task persistence state-of-base. It's simpler from the actual audit data, so we don't need to keep very much of it, and if we keep too much operating data in there, it does cause issues.

It's a scheduled task, so even within the product we're able to schedule that task. The problem was that in the previous version it didn't actually work, it wouldn't actually feedback data.

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MW
Managing Director at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

The product is very stable and straightforward. There are no issues with it.

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VM
Principal Security Architect II at a engineering company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Stability needs some work. There are some issues with the back-end infrastructure. We've noticed that in our implementation, a lot of Java memory leaks are recurring. We've gone back and forth trying to discover the cause, and have to restart the systems and clear out the memories every couple weeks or so.

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it_user326463 - PeerSpot reviewer
Domestic Markets - Finance at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

There are issues with the web services.

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DS
Solutions Architect at MAINT

The group is really stable. We don't have problems with the stability of the product. It's not complicated to upgrade or reset, restart, and deploy. And the services work well.

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AS
ALiBS Solutions at ALiBS Solutions

The stability could be improved. It really comes down to proper monitoring — there are a lot of good replication processes behind the scenes. If there are problems with the monitoring, then there will be problems, stability-wise. 

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Efrén Yanez - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Manager & CM Specialist & Mainframe Specialist en eSoft at eSoft 2006

No issues encountered.

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it_user558450 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Prin IT Technologist at Medtronic

We definitely had quite a few challenges getting up and running. Since the initial setup, it's been pretty good. We have some small issues, but overall it's not too bad. It was definitely a challenge getting to that state, though.

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AS
ALiBS Solutions at ALiBS Solutions

The stability of the product is great. There is a little bit of a performance in that sometimes it can take a while to pull reports, however, it doesn't crash or freeze and there are no bugs or glitches. 

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Efrén Yanez - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Manager & CM Specialist & Mainframe Specialist en eSoft at eSoft 2006
PS
Lead Solution Advisor at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Stability is very good. We have been using it the last three years. I haven't seen any issues.

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it_user372633 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Manager at Best Western Hotels & Resorts

They seem very, very stable. Ever since we put them in place we didn't have to do much in terms of bug fixes. They just work out of the gate. Part of the reason we had that is because we couldn't have the point from a single server so there is no fail over, even though the two supports that we have not configured this way yet.

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it_user197580 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Architect at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The actual application is very well designed and architected, and is very stable. We're very happy with the solution so far. The product is easily scalable and horizontally in that manner, so what that allows us to do is as we onboard more and more applications as endpoints for the Identity Manager, we're able to scale appropriately. Horizontal scaling is the ability to basically say, "Hey, I have ten more endpoints. I need two more instances of the application to manage those endpoints." It's easy to just instantiate them, as opposed to us having to buy bigger and bigger boxes to manage with more memory, more compute, more storage to manage those entities.

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Sudip Karmacharya - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Specialist at CAS Trading House

Symantec Identity Governance and Administration is a stable solution, though sometimes you'll experience an issue or a problem with it. Stability-wise and performance-wise, I would rate it three out of five.

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MB
Operation Risk Senior Manager/CRO at I-SCORE

My impression of the stability of CA IDM is that the product is very dependable. They have a good HA (High Availability) design and good DR (Disaster Recovery) for data transmission and security in all situations.  

The deployment is very good. After you set up a new component you just go to the console and access the component you need to make adjustments to it at the console. The high availability works on active-active so it does not require a switch automatically to the other component because they act simultaneously. And, of course, we can also work with active-passive mode if you make that choice.  

I am not sure that this type of node management is an advantage to most users or not because in IT management you may not need this type of high availability design depending on the industry. But the capability is there and it can add stability to the infrastructure.  

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it_user349428 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We’ve uncovered some bugs while working in it. CA has -- and still is -- working with us to resolve those issues.

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it_user351318 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Information Security Analyst with 10,001+ employees

At the moment, stability is so-so. We implemented this solution last month and the CA professional worked with us every day and made some configuration. I think our level of stability is normal for this stage.

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it_user372519 - PeerSpot reviewer
CIO at Bank Hapoalim

It was a journey because when we started the project, we had trouble. We couldn't get the system easily installed, up and running but over the time we installed a different project from CA. Which is called Wiley [CA APM] which really enabled us to get things smooth, up and running and for the past 6 months we haven't had any defaults in the system.

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it_user779286 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at Deloitte

Can't comment yet. Not up.

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it_user183003 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Engineering at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

No issues with stability.

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SM
CEO at Next Generation Technocom Pvt Ltd

The product is stable.

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PD
Delivery consultant at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

The solution is rather, but not remarkably, stable, as it is plagued by a number of bugs which persist from one version to the next. 

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RK
Technologist at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

No, we have not.

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it_user124563 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Identity and Access Management at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Multiple issues with stability of the provisioning servers.

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it_user354783 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. IT Security Architect at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We're still executing Identity Manager, so far we haven't had a very bad experience. It looks like it's good, but we still have to learn a lot about how to use the product, but so far from what we've seen, it's a prominent product.

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it_user32025 - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director, Application Development

It's been very solid. We went live a year ago, so almost 18 months and it's been rock solid.

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it_user342633 - PeerSpot reviewer
SiteMinder Engineer at a government with 501-1,000 employees

Most of the time, because we do a lot of testing, it seems to be in good shape, and as far as I can see there's no problem at all with stability.

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it_user293976 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Infrastructure Engineer with 10,001+ employees

Overall, it's quite a stable product.

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it_user558657 - PeerSpot reviewer
Snr Application Analyst at Rogers Communication

The provisioning perspective is very stable. In terms of identity management, the logic is good, but performance could be better.

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it_user328731 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Manager at a aerospace/defense firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The system is very stable, it isn’t freezing and it handles everything very well.

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it_user334890 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, Identity and Access Management with 10,001+ employees

No issues encountered.

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UA
Enterprise Solutions & Services Head at Duroob Technology

The solution is very stable.

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DS
Solutions Architect at MAINT

It is very stable. There are no issues.

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it_user345663 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager - Identity and Access Management at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Performance is a challenge just in terms of the number of roles and endpoints that we're managing. We have 10 platforms that we manage and over 8000 endpoints – that’s our challenge.

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it_user558459 - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO, Application Development at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

This solution is very stable. I have no problems in that aspect.

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it_user354783 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. IT Security Architect at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The stability of it seems good so far. Right now we are using rule mining, rule certifications, rule accessibility and GovernanceMinder. They're working fantastically.

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it_user351561 - PeerSpot reviewer
Middleware Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

It's always stable. We have different boxes installed and have never had a stability issue.

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WA
Technical Support Manager at Future systems

It is stable. If I had to rate the stability from one to ten, I would give it an 8.5.

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it_user304782 - PeerSpot reviewer
Middleware specialist at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

No issues encountered.

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RC
Solution Architect with 1-10 employees

We have encountered issues with stability.

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it_user558513 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Specialist - Information Security at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

The stability of this product is okay.

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it_user294231 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Analyst at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

At times we had issues with CA Identity Manager tasks getting hung in an "In Progress" state. We had to restart the instances, but that happens very seldom.

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it_user175146 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

No issues encountered.

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it_user348315 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Analyst at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have some stability issues. We go through waves every few months where it goes up and down lot. The product will look as if it’s available, but a request you submit will get stuck. There will be times where you can’t even log into it and it’s completely unavailable.

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it_user326493 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Architect at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We’re only using it for employees, so the stability is handled very well.

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it_user176052 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager at Flex Consultancy Services Pte Ltd

No stability issues.

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FM
Senior Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

It's stable and runs well. 

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it_user310890 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Yes, as Jboss cannot handle too much load.

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it_user778596 - PeerSpot reviewer
Developer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is pretty good. Relatively stable. We have definitely had some downtime, but overall it is good.

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it_user179250 - PeerSpot reviewer
Applications Analyst with 10,001+ employees

No issues encountered.

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it_user178560 - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Manager at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Sometimes, earlier only due to lack of RAM. Now it's stable most often.

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it_user178146 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, Domain Services Tech Ops at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees
it_user184776 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical Consultant at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

Yes, sometimes the connection with the DB is lost, and it isn't fully recovered without restarting the server.

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it_user178524 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

None encountered.

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it_user176574 - PeerSpot reviewer
Delivery Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

So far no, the product works well and it's stable.

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it_user723975 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Information Security Analyst at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

As noted above, we found that if you create a certification with a high number of objects, the portal runs slowly. We are working with CA to manage this situation.

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it_user334941 - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Consulting Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

No issues encountered.

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it_user201936 - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

If the product has been tuned, appropriated, and appropriate memory has been allocated, there are no issues with stability.

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it_user401733 - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Buyer's Guide
Symantec Identity Governance and Administration
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Symantec Identity Governance and Administration. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.