New domains in WebLogic Server 12c are created with the default authentication provider called DefaultAuthenticator
. DefaultAuthenticator
authenticates the users and groups stored in the internal LDAP mechanism on the WebLogic Server. The internal LDAP runs embedded with the WebLogic Server Instance. The Administration Server runs the master LDAP and the Managed Servers run the LDAP as replicas.
It is possible to use the internal LDAP to store and authenticate the users and groups in production, but the WebLogic administrator can add more robust types of authentication providers such as, a database, Active Directory, and external LDAP, among many others.
In this recipe, a new SQL authentication provider named PRODSQLProvider
will be configured and added to the PROD_DOMAIN
domain to store and handle the users and groups in an Oracle database.
A new data source, ds-Provider
, will be created. The database runs at the dbhost
hostname and listens to the...