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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

Accessing the OA Administration console


As discussed above, OAM Administration console is the web application that runs on WebLogic admin server and is used to configure OAM system properties and policy components. In order to access OAM Administration console, make sure WebLogic's admin server is running. If it isn't, see Chapter 4, Start-up Shutdown IDAM).

Note

OAM Administration Console replaces Policy Manager in OAM 10g.

Logging in and out of OAM Administration console

This section describes how to login and logout of OAM Administration console.

  1. To login to the console, type the URL http://servername:port/oamconsole where servername is the hostname of the server where your WebLogic admin server is running, and port is the Admin server port (default is 7001).

    Tip

    Initially, the LDAP group for the OAM administrator is the same as the LDAP group defined for the WebLogic Server Administration console, that is, Administrators.

  2. Login with the username/password you created in Chapter 2, in the Configure...