Agent Installation and Configuration > Before Installing Integrity Lifecycle Manager Agent > Assumptions
 
Assumptions
Before using the Integrity Lifecycle Manager Agent, ensure that you understand:
The hardware platforms and operating systems you are installing the Integrity Lifecycle Manager Agent on, that is, Windows, Solaris, and Linux.
The native security realm of your system. The Integrity Lifecycle Manager Agent supports the following security realms: NT realm, Windows (ADS/Kerberos), UNIX, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), and Flat File.
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Support for the NT security realm will be dropped in a future release.
Distinguished Names (DN), LDAP search filters, and LDAP schemas if you want to use LDAP or Windows authentication using ADS.
The character set encoding requirements of your e-mail system.