Since the first OIM 11g release, one of the frequently asked questions about OIM 11g is: Should I configure OIM with LDAP synchronization or should I deploy a...
Since the first OIM 11g release, one of the frequently asked questions about OIM 11g is: Should I configure OIM with LDAP synchronization or should I deploy a LDAP connector? Since earlier versions, OIM provides connectors for the most popular LDAP systems: Oracle Internet Directory (OID), Oracle Directory Server EE (formerly Sun Java Directory/iPlanet), Novell eDirectory and Microsoft Active Directory (AD). With OIM 11g, a new feature called LDAP synchronization was...
Since the first OIM 11g release, one of the frequently asked questions about OIM 11g is: Should I configure OIM with LDAP synchronization or should I deploy a LDAP connector? Since earlier versions,...
Introduction When we first started this blog more than 2 years ago, we debated about whether to name it “Fusion Security” or more specifically “Fusion...
Introduction When we first started this blog more than 2 years ago, we debated about whether to name it “Fusion Security” or more specifically “Fusion Middleware Security”. We all work in the Fusion Middleware team on Fusion Middleware but even back then we saw Fusion Applications coming down the pipe and after all Fusion Apps is a set of big business applications whose principal distinction (in my opinion) is that it is the first set of business applications to be built on a...
Introduction When we first started this blog more than 2 years ago, we debated about whether to name it “Fusion Security” or more specifically “Fusion Middleware Security”. We all work in the Fusion...
Introduction First, I’d like to take the opportunity to wish you all our readers a great 2012, with plenty of health, joy, care for each other and peace! We...
Introduction First, I’d like to take the opportunity to wish you all our readers a great 2012, with plenty of health, joy, care for each other and peace! We really appreciate your interest in our posts and hope to be truly contributing to your daily work. With that said… Did you guys know Weblogic implements a WS-Trust client? Did you also know that WS-Trust client can interoperate with web services protected by OWSM policies requiring message protection (signing and...
Introduction First, I’d like to take the opportunity to wish you all our readers a great 2012, with plenty of health, joy, care for each other and peace! We really appreciate your interest in...
Introduction I have been involved with many customer's who are integrating OAM 11g with Universal Content Manager 11g (UCM) and I know that trying to follow the...
Introduction I have been involved with many customer's who are integrating OAM 11g with Universal Content Manager 11g (UCM) and I know that trying to follow the OAM documentation can be daunting. So I put together my own integration document/Blog. Not to re-invent the wheel, this post utilizes what we already have in terms of documentation. Think of this as a checklist and the steps that I implemented to get my own internal environment working. Main Article Prerequisites 1)...
Introduction I have been involved with many customer's who are integrating OAM 11g with Universal Content Manager 11g (UCM) and I know that trying to follow the OAM documentation can be daunting. So I...
This is somewhat related to what Brian describes in WLS Session Cookie Overriding in an OAM/SSO Enabled Environment. Here, I want to quickly point one potential...
This is somewhat related to what Brian describes in WLS Session Cookie Overriding in an OAM/SSO Enabled Environment. Here, I want to quickly point one potential issue if you plan to implement Web SSO using Weblogic server as a SAML2.0 Service Provider (SP). When configuring a Weblogic server instance for SAML2.0 services, you have to fill in a property called “Published Site URL”. When this instance is an SP, this property tell the partner IdP (Identity Provider) where to...
This is somewhat related to what Brian describes in WLS Session Cookie Overriding in an OAM/SSO Enabled Environment. Here, I want to quickly point one potential issue if you plan to implement Web SSO...
Introduction This is Part Two of the article describing a potential implementation of Request Based LDAP Group Membership provisioning. Part One can be accessed...
Introduction This is Part Two of the article describing a potential implementation of Request Based LDAP Group Membership provisioning. Part One can be accessed here. Continuing with the implementation after disabling the default approval policies at the Request and Operation Levels, the next step is to configure OIM to enable the modification of a provisioned resource via a request. The datasets associated to the Create and Modify operations of the resource in questions (OID...
Introduction This is Part Two of the article describing a potential implementation of Request Based LDAP Group Membership provisioning. Part One can be accessed here. Continuing with the...
Introduction In recent days, I was assigned the task to implement a use case that I am sure many customers of Oracle have in mind but are not sure how to...
Introduction In recent days, I was assigned the task to implement a use case that I am sure many customers of Oracle have in mind but are not sure how to implement in OIM 11g. I even saw some thread inquiring about this very topic with no answer. Well, after some time I was able to put together an implementation of a Custom Approval process and a Custom UI based on ADF to request entitlements for users which in turn will be converted to Group memberships in OID (this also...
Introduction In recent days, I was assigned the task to implement a use case that I am sure many customers of Oracle have in mind but are not sure how to implement in OIM 11g. I even saw some...
Introduction In this post I want to introduce our readers to the Oracle Secure Token Service (OSTS) product, Oracle’s solution for providing standards-based...
Introduction In this post I want to introduce our readers to the Oracle Secure Token Service (OSTS) product, Oracle’s solution for providing standards-based mechanisms for trust brokerage across different identity domains. I won’t cover the gory details in this first post, but I expect to give you a good overview on what the product is, the typical usage scenarios and a basic understanding of its main concepts. OSTS facilitates secure communications between web services...
Introduction In this post I want to introduce our readers to the Oracle Secure Token Service (OSTS) product, Oracle’s solution for providing standards-based mechanisms for trust brokerage...
Another common question on the internal mailing list: Why do we need an OID authenticator when I have the OAM Asserter enabled? The user has already been...
Another common question on the internal mailing list: Why do we need an OID authenticator when I have the OAM Asserter enabled? The user has already been authenticated when the request gets to WebLogic. The short answer is that all an Identity Asserter does is says "the request is authenticated and the username is Chris". WebLogic then needs to know how to find "Chris" and to do that it needs an Authenticator. The longer answer is available on the net already... it's just a...
Another common question on the internal mailing list: Why do we need an OID authenticator when I have the OAM Asserter enabled? The user has already been authenticated when the request gets...
