Introduction Having access to a VM in the Cloud via VNC can be very useful in many situations – e.g. most customers want to install software using GUI based...
Introduction Having access to a VM in the Cloud via VNC can be very useful in many situations – e.g. most customers want to install software using GUI based installer, e.g. Oracle Database etc. Using VNC the installation can continue, even without being connected. The easiest way to achieve this with a reliable and secure mechanism is to use VNC via a SSH Tunnel. In this example a simple Oracle Compute Cloud VM is used to configure a Gnome Desktop & VNC Server. It has been...
Introduction Having access to a VM in the Cloud via VNC can be very useful in many situations – e.g. most customers want to install software using GUI based installer, e.g. Oracle Database etc....
In a previous post previous post I provided a brief introduction to SCIM. In this post I'm going to dive right in and give an example of using the OIM SCIM...
In a previous post previous post I provided a brief introduction to SCIM. In this post I'm going to dive right in and give an example of using the OIM SCIM services and securing them with OAM. Why would you want to use OIM SCIM services? There are many reasons, however I will focus on one particular use case in this post – building a custom UI to access OIM. OIM's out-of-the-box UI provides a broad set of features to cover most use cases, and includes a customisation facility...
In a previous post previous post I provided a brief introduction to SCIM. In this post I'm going to dive right in and give an example of using the OIM SCIM services and securing them with OAM....
Introduction OAM (Oracle Access Manager) has an interesting feature that often goes unnoticed to a considerable number of people wishing to tackle the problem...
Introduction OAM (Oracle Access Manager) has an interesting feature that often goes unnoticed to a considerable number of people wishing to tackle the problem of identity propagation. It's OAM's ability to generate a secure token embedding user information as a result of successful authentication or authorization. My colleagues Rob Otto and Simon Kissane have talked about it in "Retrieving the OAM SessionID for Fun and Profit" and "Authenticating to OIM SCIM server using an...
Introduction OAM (Oracle Access Manager) has an interesting feature that often goes unnoticed to a considerable number of people wishing to tackle the problem of identity propagation. It's...
In this post I'm going to give an overview of the steps involved in upgrading to Oracle Identity Manager 11.1.2.3. This is just a high-level overview, with...
In this post I'm going to give an overview of the steps involved in upgrading to Oracle Identity Manager 11.1.2.3. This is just a high-level overview, with pointers to the documentation you need to read to get the detailed steps. Classification of OIM environments For the purpose of OIM upgrade, environments can be classified as follows: LCM vs non-LCM: an LCM environment is installed using the LCM (Lifecycle Management) provisioning tools shipped in 11.1.2.x and later. All...
In this post I'm going to give an overview of the steps involved in upgrading to Oracle Identity Manager 11.1.2.3. This is just a high-level overview, with pointers to the documentation you need...
Introduction To get you easily started with Oracle Cloud offerings, they come with their own user management. You can create users, assign roles, change...
Introduction To get you easily started with Oracle Cloud offerings, they come with their own user management. You can create users, assign roles, change passwords, etc. However, real world enterprises already have existing Identity Management solutions and want to avoid to maintain the same information in many places. To avoid duplicate identities and the related security risks, like out of sync passwords, outdated user information, or rogue user accounts of locked accounts,...
Introduction To get you easily started with Oracle Cloud offerings, they come with their own user management. You can create users, assign roles, change passwords, etc. However, real world enterprises...
Introduction This post is part of a larger series on Oracle Access Manager 11g called Oracle Access Manager Academy. An index to the entire series with links to...
Introduction This post is part of a larger series on Oracle Access Manager 11g called Oracle Access Manager Academy. An index to the entire series with links to each of the separate posts is available. People typically are introduced to Webgate tuning in one of two ways, either forced into it because of a crisis or actively preparing an environment to do some aggressive load testing. Hopefully you are in the later group. Unfortunately, there is still a lot of mystery behind...
Introduction This post is part of a larger series on Oracle Access Manager 11g called Oracle Access Manager Academy. An index to the entire series with links to each of the separate posts...
SCIM is a standard protocol for accessing identity information (users, roles, etc), including querying, retrieval, create, update and delete. The latest version...
SCIM is a standard protocol for accessing identity information (users, roles, etc), including querying, retrieval, create, update and delete. The latest version of SCIM, SCIM 2.0, has been defined in a series of RFCs: RFC 7642, RFC 7643 and RFC 7644. What does SCIM stand for? Originally it was an acronym for “Simplified Cloud Identity Management”. When SCIM moved to the IETF during the development of SCIM 2.0, the acronym was kept but the expansion was changed to “System for...
SCIM is a standard protocol for accessing identity information (users, roles, etc), including querying, retrieval, create, update and delete. The latest version of SCIM, SCIM 2.0, has been defined in...
This post is about OUD and extremely large static groups where membership numbers exceed hundreds of thousands or even millions; yes I said millions. I have...
This post is about OUD and extremely large static groups where membership numbers exceed hundreds of thousands or even millions; yes I said millions. I have been using Directory Services for over 15 years and the response I typically have for a customer that wants to use very large static groups is don't do it. Then I steer them into dynamic groups or even suggest leveraging attributes from user entries. In fact OUD has a great feature unique to itself called Virtual...
This post is about OUD and extremely large static groups where membership numbers exceed hundreds of thousands or even millions; yes I said millions. I have been using Directory Services for over 15...
Introduction Companies usually have some Identity and Access Management solution deployed on premises to manage users and roles to secure access to their...
Introduction Companies usually have some Identity and Access Management solution deployed on premises to manage users and roles to secure access to their corporate applications. As business move to the cloud, companies will, most likely, want to leverage the investment already made into such IAM solutions and integrate them with the new SaaS or PaaS applications that are being added to their portfolio. Oracle Public Cloud and its Shared Identity Management services (SIM)...
Introduction Companies usually have some Identity and Access Management solution deployed on premises to manage users and roles to secure access to their corporate applications. As business move to...
