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Oracle Identity and Access Manager 11g for Administrators

By : Atul Kumar
Book Image

Oracle Identity and Access Manager 11g for Administrators

By: Atul Kumar

Overview of this book

<p>Oracle Identity Management is intended to help organizations quickly and reliably manage information about users on multiple systems and applications. Regulatory Compliance and&nbsp;the&nbsp;desire to expose business applications over&nbsp;the Internet have made Identity and Access management skills&nbsp;particularly&nbsp;desirable in recent times. Oracle Access Manager is&nbsp;a&nbsp;recommended Single Sign-On solution for Fusion Middleware including WebCenter, SOA Suite, Portal, and E-Business Suite; more and more companies&nbsp;are&nbsp;implementing Oracle Access Manager. This book will guide you through the important&nbsp;administrative&nbsp;aspects of Identity Mangement.<br /><br />Oracle Identity and Access Manager 11g for Administrators covers&nbsp;the complete&nbsp;day-to-day task of installing, configuring, and managing Oracle Access Manager and Oracle Identity Manager. This book covers everything an administrator needs during and after&nbsp;an&nbsp;Oracle Identity and Access Management implementation.<br /><br />This book covers all aspects of&nbsp;the&nbsp;Oracle Identity and Access Management life cycle from administrator's point of view. <br /><br />This book starts with&nbsp;an&nbsp;introduction&nbsp;into&nbsp;Oracle’s Identity and Access Management products touching all&nbsp;the&nbsp;products which are part of&nbsp;the&nbsp;Oracle Identity Management Suite. It then covers installation and&nbsp;the&nbsp;configuration of multiple OAM/OIM servers in&nbsp;clusters&nbsp;for resilience and high availability deployment for production deployments, creating Identity and Access Management Schemas, and configuring Identity Manager and Access Manager in detail.&nbsp;The book&nbsp;then dives into&nbsp;the&nbsp;important topic that is Oracle Identity Manager navigation, and covers integrating Oracle Identity Manager with Oracle Internet Directory and Microsoft Active Directory using OIM Connectors. Finally the book covers&nbsp;the&nbsp;important key topic for monitoring that is Logging and Auditing in OIM/OAM and configuring&nbsp;a&nbsp;dedicated database for Auditing.</p>
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Oracle Identity and Access Manager 11g for Administrators
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
9
OIM Navigation: Administration and Design Console
Index

Connector


A connector is a container that contains all the components used by OIM to communicate with a resource in order to provision or reconcile with that resource. OIM's Advanced Administration console provides two web-based wizards to install/configure a connector, namely Connector Installer and Deployment Manager.

  • Connector Installer is used to import and configure predefined connectors.

  • Deployment Manager is used to export connectors and connector components. Deployment Manager is also used to import connectors and connector components not supported by the Connector Installer.

Connector Components

An OIM connector must have the following seven components:

  • IT resource type

  • IT resource

  • Process form

  • Process task adapter

  • Resource object

  • Provisioning process

  • Process task

IT resource type

The IT resource type contains information about classification type, parameter fields, and settings associated with an external resource. Multiple IT resources are grouped together into this one category called...