Course Description

Summary

This course will equip you with the skills to securely manage, monitor, and control privileged accounts using OpenText™ Privileged Access Manager.

Overview

OpenText Privileged Access Manager helps an organization protect critical assets and maintain compliance requirements by securing, managing, and monitoring privileged accounts for privileged access. It is capable of managing shared accounts and also auditing those accounts. You can monitor all actions performed on servers for Windows, Linux, Databases, or any application, such as LDAP.

OpenText Privileged Access Manager delivers a robust and scalable architecture, an intuitive management console, and reusable script and command libraries, enabling administrators to reduce management overhead and infrastructure costs within their environment.

Throughout the course, you will explore the architecture, installation, configuration, and management of Privileged Access Manager across multiple platforms—Windows, Linux, and Databases. You will also gain hands-on experience with both agent and agentless methods, access policies, credential vaults, and powerful auditing capabilities.

By the end of this course, you will confidently navigate the intricacies of privileged access management and strengthen your organization’s security posture.

Highlights:

• Summarize OpenText Privileged Access Manager terminology
• Install and configure the OpenText Privileged Access Manager framework
• Configure Agent/Agentless access to a Linux and Windows host
• Configure and manage access to a database
• Generate reports and troubleshoot issues

Course Objectives

On completion of this course, participants should be able to:

• Describe the OpenText Privileged Access Manager terminology.
• Install OpenText Privileged Access Manager.
• Configure OpenText Privileged Access Manager framework.
• Configure Enterprise Credential Vault.
• Configure agentless access to a Linux host.
• Configure an agent access to a Linux host.
• Configure agentless access to a Windows host.
• Configure an agent access to a Windows host.
• Configure and manage access to a database.
• Generate reports.
• Troubleshoot issues.

Prerequisites

Working knowledge of access controls and authorized actions is recommended.