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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

Common environment variables


This section covers common environment variables and top-level directories used in Identity and Access Management:

  • Middleware Home: MW_HOME

  • WebLogic Home: WL_HOME

  • Coherence Home: COHERENCE_HOME

  • Oracle Home for IDAM: IDAM ORACLE_HOME

  • Oracle Home for common: COMMON ORACLE_HOME

  • Oracle Home for SOA: SOA ORACLE_HOME

  • Domain Home: DOMAIN_HOME

Middleware Home

Middleware Home is a top-level directory, created during WebLogic installation and contains all the Oracle Home, WebLogic server, Coherence server, and optionally WebLogic domains. Middleware Home is represented by %MW_HOME% (Windows) or $MW_HOME (Unix). Middleware Home can reside on local file systems or on a remote shared disk accessible to the server. The following screenshot lists files and directories created under Middleware Home after WebLogic installation. The directory /oracle/apps/oamoim/mw_home represents MW_HOME

The following table explains directory content of Middleware Home (MW_HOME):

Directory/File...