# Guide to OpenIG
Preface

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## 1. Who Should Use this Guide

This guide is written for access management designers and administrators who build, deploy, and maintain identity gateways for their organizations. This guide covers the tasks you might perform once or repeat throughout the life cycle of an OpenIG release used in your organization.

You do not need to be an OpenIG wizard to learn something from this guide, though a background in access management and maintaining web application software can help. You do need some background in managing services on your operating systems and in your application servers. You can nevertheless get started with this guide, and then learn more as you go along.