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Oracle WebLogic Server 12c Advanced Administration Cookbook

By : Dalton Iwazaki
Book Image

Oracle WebLogic Server 12c Advanced Administration Cookbook

By: Dalton Iwazaki

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Oracle WebLogic Server 12c Advanced Administration Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating a new SQL authentication provider


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...