Basics of OID, OVD & OIF

What is OID?

• Oracle Internet Directory is an LDAP directory that uses an Oracle Database for storage. 
• Clients communicate with a directory server by means of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP).

How DATA is stored in OID?

• It is stored in hierarchical format i.e. DIT (Directory Information Tree).

What all you can store in OID?

• You can store passwords, connections information etc.

What is Oracle Integration Platform?

• It enables you to sync the data to & fro between the databases. Like from OID to Finance Database.

What is the benefit of using OVD (Oracle Virtual Directory)?

• OVD acts as an interface, which has adapters to connect to multiple data sources. It basically provides an LDAP Service using which you connect to different databases, directories.....
• This adds an advantage to the organizations to use a single interface which actually in the background talking to multiple directories or databases.

What is OIF (Oracle Identity Federation)?

• Oracle Identity Federation enables companies to share the identity information with their partner organizations i.e. the end user does not need to log in again to the partner site once he/she gets logged in to his/her company account. 
• With this feature the enterprises can federate seamlessly with the partner organizations and no compromise needs to do with security checks.

Hope it solves some of your doubts......

Enjoy :-)

Installing and Configuring Oracle Identity and Access Management 11g Release 2 (11.1.2.2.0)

Installing and configuring the latest version of Oracle Identity and Access Management 11g components involves the following steps:

• Obtaining the Oracle Fusion Middleware Software
• Database Requirements
• Creating Database Schema Using the Oracle Fusion Middleware Repository Creation Utility (RCU)
• WebLogic Server and Middleware Home Requirements
• ** Installing Oracle SOA Suite (Oracle Identity Manager Users Only)
• Starting the Oracle Identity and Access Management Installer
• Installing Oracle Identity and Access Management 11g Release 2 (11.1.2.2.0)
• Configuring Oracle Identity and Access Management (11.1.2.2.0) Products
• Upgrading OPSS Schema using Patch Set Assistant
• Configuring Database Security Store for an Oracle Identity and Access Management Domain
• Configuring Oracle Identity Manager Server, Design Console, and Remote Manager
• Starting the Servers

Note: ** If you are installing Oracle Identity Manager, you must install Oracle SOA Suite 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.7.0). Note that only Oracle Identity Manager requires Oracle SOA Suite. This step is required because Oracle Identity Manager uses process workflows in Oracle SOA Suite to manage request approvals.

Enjoy :-)

Integrating SharePoint 2013 with OAM 11g R2PS2 (Windows Server 2012 R2)

Before we start please read the note...

Note:

• We will be installing & configuring the complete setup on a host machine i.e. a virtual machine. Usually in corporate setup's we are provided with the host machines to test our setup.
• We will be doing this integration on Windows Server 2012 R2

Start following the link's mentioned below:

1. Create User Account
2. Install & Configure Active Directory
3. Create Service Account for SQL Server & SharePoint Setup
4. Install & Configure SQL SERVER 2012 on Windows Server 2012 R2
5. Install & Configure SharePoint 2013
6. Integrate OAM with SharePoint 2013
7. Troubleshooting

 To be continue.....................


Enjoy :-)

coreadm - core file administration

coreadm command for Solaris:

You must be wondering what this coreadm command does. It is really a powerful tool that helps the administrator to look at the cores generation way.

Actually there are times when we found that our core files is getting generated with the name "core" in the process running directory. And if the process is generating cores in quick succession than the same file is getting overwritten all the time.

Thus it will become tough for us to debug the core..............

So in such cases we can actually make the core file get generated with a name pattern and this can be possible with the coreadm command in Solaris OS (x86 or SPARC).

Execute the command without any option will display the current settings done for the core files generation.

bash-3.2$ coreadm
     global core file pattern:
     global core file content: default
     init core file pattern: core
     init core file content: default
     global core dumps: disabled
     per-process core dumps: enabled
     global setid core dumps: disabled
     per-process setid core dumps: disabled
     global core dump logging: disabled

When i executed the command on my Solaris Sparc box above output is shown. It shows that core file generation per-process is enabled but the core file name pattern (in init core file pattern) is "core" only. Thus with this setting the same file will be overwritten all the time.

So as to set the name pattern for per-process, follwoing is the command:

• bash-3.2$ coreadm -i core.%f.%p.%t

Here %f - file/process name
         %p - process pid
         %t - default timestamp

To confirm above made settings, execute below mentioned command:

• bash-3.2$ coreadm $$

          27756:  core.%f.%p.%t   default
It shows the set core file name pattern.

Thus now-onwards you will notice that core files will be generated with a name pattern.
Like - "core.httpd.worker.4298.1404300544"

So coreadm makes our life easy....................

Enjoy :-)