Oracle Identity Management 11gR2 softwares are available for download

Hi All,

Oracle IDM 11gR2 softwares are available in edelivery for download.

 

Oracle Identity Management 11.1.2.0 documentation is out

Oracle has released the Oracle Identity Management 11.1.2.0 documentation here. Being more of an OAM guy, it is undoubtedly said that OAM spectrum is vast now with inclusion of Mobile and Social features and Client API toolkits.

I will update you when softwares are available for download.

How to configure Apache Server with port less than 1024?

Goal: Apache Server runs on a http port and needs to be started/stopped as non-root user if Apache Server port is greater than 1024. How to make Apache server run as root user if port is less than 1024 in linux environment?

Solution:

1. Login as root user.
2. Goto Apache directory say $ORACLE_HOME/Apache/Apache/bin
3. Change ownership of apachectl as root chown root .apachectl
4. Change permission as chmod 6750 .apachectl

Oracle Identity Management 11gR2 WebCast Q&A

As a follow up for my previous post on Oracle IDM 11gR2 release web cast, I would like to let you know that QA during that session was blogged here, very informative.

Oracle Access Manager patch numbers

You can find Oracle Access Manager patch numbers for any of the versions like 10g, 11g and so on here
 Metalink note: 736372.1

Highlights of Oracle Identity Management 11gR2 release webcast

I have attended the WebCast of Oracle IDM 11gR2 release yesterday and here is an overview of the discussion. This release is majorly into supporting mobile and social applications for Web SSO. Let us see various areas that are covered in this release.

• First and foremost, the softwares of 11gR2 will be available in OTN/edelivery by mid of August.
• Migration/Upgrade from Sun IDM to Oracle IDM: Oracle has already brought in some customer environments in house to test the migration process using scripts and tools. So automated process can be expected in this release.
• 11gR2 with regards to cloud: Already Oracle cloud environment is being built on Oracle Identity Management stack and more features can be expected in future.
• Mobile and Social Apps: This is the highlight of this release. SSO for these applications has been brought into Web Access Management. Lots of open standards have been incorporated such as OAuth, SAML, OpenID and REST. Some of the new features includes native mobile security and SSO with social applications such as Facebook/Twitter/Yahoo etc., and REST API for cloud and mobile application development and support for multi-data center configurations. I presume multi-data center configurations was available in 11gR1 but not certified or not officially brought out. To summarize the Oracle Access Manager spectrum has increased by large volume involving STS, Mobile & Social security, new open standards etc.,
• More features of virtualization are included in Oracle Unified Directory. Undoubtedly it can be said that OUD has been more focused and will be future LDAP and virtual storage product beating OID/OVD/ODSEE - just my personal thought.
• Connector reuse for both Oracle IDM and Sun IDM will be in place for target systems.
• One of the most important integrations OIM-OIA (that leverages customers to provision the roles to downstream appplications through OIM by importing roles into OIA etc.,) has been enhanced with new feature called Entitlement Catalog in OIM that will allow us to define all business attributes and forms in catalog and be made available in recertification & approval process.
• Simplied look and feel for Identity management & Access Governance capabilities such as Access Request, Provisioning and Certification etc.,
• New product is introduced Oracle Privileged Account Manager OPAM that will be used across the entire breadth of IAM stack. OPAM is used to safely and easily manage shared and administrative passwords associated with business applications, middleware, database and operation systems. Integration is supported with Access Management and Identity Governance systems. It is very interesting to see this product playing role of automated approval of requests, change password management and so on. Eagerly waiting for this product.

Let me know if you have any comments.

"ls command not found" in linux

I want to set environment variables in my linux environment and hence I updated .bash_profile with two lines at the end of the file.

export JAVA_HOME=/u01/app/Oracle/Middleware/jrockit_160_29_D1.2.0-10/bin/java
export PATH=/u01/app/Oracle/Middleware/jrockit_160_29_D1.2.0-10/bin

After sometime I had rebooted machine for something else and I am seeing a different screen after logging into linux system, an xclock and xterm stuff which was very unusual.

Later I noticed that ls and other bash commands are also not working as non-root user for which I modified the .bash_profile. See the error message given below.

-bash: ls: command not found

So I logged in as root user and modified the non-root user .bash_profile to include the actual PATH as shown below.

export PATH=$PATH:/u01/app/Oracle/Middleware/jrockit_160_29_D1.2.0-10/bin
Actually the PATH variable was earlier set as shown below.
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin

I rebooted machine and it works fine!! A silly mistake killed my time :(