Scalability
(1) Password Manager has been deployed by very large corporations. Examples of large deployments include:
- Organizations with over 750,000 Password Manager users managing passwords on a single Password Manager instance, load balanced between just two servers.
- Users distributed over six continents.
- A single Password Manager instance, running on a single server, managing passwords on over 3,200 password systems.
Password Manager features that support scalability include:
- The ability to install multiple instances per server.
- The ability of instances to span multiple servers, where each server in a group is functionally identical; supporting the same users, systems and features.
- A built-in, high-performance identity cache, which includes
server-to-server data replication in real time.
- Built-in services to monitor server health and dynamically update DNS records; for example to remove a malfunctioning server from load balancing rotation.
In addition, Password Manager incorporates many features that, while not directly performance-related, are required by large organizations:
- The ability to operate across firewalls: between the user and Password Manager, as well as between Password Manager and managed systems.
- Inclusion of a proxy service, which allows a Password Manager server in one location to manage passwords elsewhere, across slow and/or insecure WANs.
- Support for multiple user interfaces and UI languages per server instance.
- Auto-discovery of user IDs on managed systems, to eliminate ongoing manual administration and to minimize initial configuration effort.
- The ability to support self-service password reset for users who forgot their initial NOS login password without having to deploy desktop software (secure kiosk account).
- Support for 21 user interface languages.