Simplifying OIM 11g Series (Chapter One)
Introduction This is the first one in a series of posts dedicated to the design of tools that have the common goal of simplifying or enhancing the functionality provided by OIM 11g. As more and more...
View ArticleSimplifying OIM 11g (Chapter Two)
Introduction This is the second article in a series of posts with the common goal of providing customers with ideas and techniques that can be used to simplify the use of advanced features of OIM...
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OIM 11g R2 & X.509 authentication
Introduction OIM 11g R2 is out! This release brings a lot of new features and also improvements to existing features. OIM authentication providers are among the ones that were improved. The...
View ArticlePatch Management of an Oracle Identity Management Deployment
Introduction Today I’d like to discuss a very important topic which is patch management in an Oracle IDM/IAM deployment. Patching seems like a pretty basic topic. It is often taken for granted....
View ArticleOAM and OIM 11g Academies
Introduction As many of you know, last year we created indexes of posts on OAM and OIM 11g R2 that we call OAM 11g Academy and OIM 11g Academy. These indexes contain the articles we’ve written that we...
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OIM 11g R2 UI Customization Tips and Tricks
Introduction OIM 11g R2 provides OIM Developers with the means to implement very sophisticated and functional rich customization to the Out-of-the-Box User Interface. These customizations are capable...
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Authenticating OIM APIs without end user’s password
Introduction A common requirement in an OIM implementation is to not expose OIM user interface to all types of end users. To address this requirement, usually a custom application using OIM APIs is...
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OIM 11g R2 Requests Lifecycle Management API’s
Introduction OIM 11g R2 being such a comprehensive provisioning solution, it provides API’s for almost every aspect of functionality available in the product. This makes it a little difficult to decide...
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Synchronization of Roles in Catalog OIM 11g R2
Introduction The Catalog is one of the most fundamental features of OIM 11g R2 request based provisioning. All requests for Resources/Accounts, Entitlements and Roles are accomplished through the...
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OIM 11g R2 Self Registration with CAPTCHA
This post walks you through the fun of customizing OIM and adding a CAPTCHA solution to the self-registration page. Captcha solutions are largely used in web sites to try to prevent automated robots...
View ArticleOIM 11g R2 Performance Patch
Oracle has released a set of patches to address some performance issues in OIM 11g R2 self-service interface. Information about these patches is available in the following Oracle support note: Document...
View ArticleLoading unique passwords with OIM bulk load
Introduction Using Oracle Identity Manager’s bulk load tool is a great way to load large numbers of user records into OIM in an efficient and performant way. The standard and documented usage of the...
View ArticleA checklist for OIM go live
This post presents a list of configuration points in OIM. Such list definitely must be taken into account whenever a customer is planning an OIM go-live. This list is not intended to replace the OIM...
View ArticleOIM 11g R2 Delegated Administration Model – Sample implementation (Part I)
Introduction It is a very common requirement from customers to have a delegated administration model that is not tied to the organizations where the administrators are placed. Historically, OIM only...
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OIM Reset Password Customization Example
Out-of-the-box, the OIM reset password functionality is available to system administrators, and to delegated administrators who have administrative privileges on users’ accounts and have the ‘reset...
View ArticleOIM monitoring check-list
Introduction Systematic monitoring of OIM deployments helps to reduce risk of both technical and security related issues. It also can help to avoid performance degradation that can happen because of...
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Logging in OIM custom code
Proper logging is one of the main considerations during custom development. This is no different in OIM projects in which custom code is being developed and deployed to OIM. Proper logging is...
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Monitoring OIM R2 PS2 Orchestration
The OIM R2 PS2 (11.1.2.2.0) release provides a great new feature: monitoring of OIM orchestration processes through Enterprise Manager console. Such feature provides the capability of querying...
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Exposing User System Attributes in OIM 11gR2PS2 GUI Customization
Introduction Recently while working with a customer to help with an upgrade from OIM 11gR1 to 11gR2PS2, one interesting request came up regarding OIM GUI customization. The requirement was to expose...
View ArticleOIM Access Policy Harvesting
OIM R2 PS2 delivers a long time expected functionality: access policy harvesting. This new feature adds more flexibility to OIM access policies usage. This is another post in the Oracle Identity...
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