Install Oracle Access Manager (OAM) 10.1.4.3 Identity Server, WebPass, Policy Manager, Access Server, WebGate

This post covers overview of Oracle Access Manager (OAM) 10.1.4.3 installation (step by step installation guide coming soon…).

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Why is it important to learn Oracle Access Manager ?
OAM (Oracle Access Manager) is recommended Single Sign-On (SSO) solution for Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, more information here  (10g SSO “part of 10g Application Server” is also certified to work with Fusion Middleware 11g, but NOT recommended SSO solution for Fusion Middleware 11g )

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Things good to know

  • As discussed in my previous post Introduction to Oracle Access Manager, OAM consists of Identity System(Identity Server, WebPass) and Access System(Policy Manager, Access Server, WebGate/AccessGate) so you first install Identity system components and then install access system components.
  • Apart for Oracle Access Manager software (Access & Identity Server, WebGate, WebPass, Policy Manager) you would need two additional software
    1. Directory Server – Any directory server like OID, MS-AD, MS-ADAM, IBM Tivoli to store User, Policy and Configuration Data
    2. Web Server – Any certified web server like OHS, IIS to install WebPass, Policy manager and WebGate

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OAM Software

Download OAM software from here

download oam 11g

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OAM Installation Guide is available here

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OAM Installation Steps  

1. Install Identity System
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Install Identity System (You would need details of Directory Server – OID/AD/ADAM at this step)
1.2 Install WebPass (You would need details of WebServer – OHS/IIS at this step)
1.3 Setup Identity System

2. Install Access System
2.1 Install Policy Manager (You would need details of WebServer – OHS/IIS at this step)
2.2 Setup Policy Manager
2.3 Create Access Server instance in Access System Console 
2.2 Install Access Server (You would need details of Directory Server – OID/AD/ADAM at this step)
2.3Create Access WebGate (or AccessGate) instance in Access System Console
2.4 Install WebGate (or AccessGate) – (You would need details of WebServer – OHS/IIS at this step)

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Step by Step Oracle Access Manager (OAM) installation with Microsoft Active Directory (AD) and Oracle HTTP Server (OHS) coming soon ….

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» OAM 10.1.4.3 Installation Part II - Indentity Server Installation Online Apps DBA: One Stop Shop for Apps DBA’s says May 17, 2010

[…] This post is part II of OAM (Oracle Accesss Manager) Installation, for part I of OAM which covers installation overview and software download location click here […]

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» Oracle Access Manager Installation Part III : Install WebPass Online Apps DBA: One Stop Shop for Apps DBA’s says May 24, 2010

[…] III of OAM (Oracle Access Manager) Server installation. For Part I overview of OAM installation click here  and for Part II installation of Identity Server click […]

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namburi varma says May 25, 2010

Hi Atul,

I want OAM in my application for single signon solution.what are the products i have to download and install? I am using OID for data source.Can please tell me installation process with OID for OAM.Thanks

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namburi varma says May 25, 2010

Hi Atul,

I want OIM in my application for single signon solution.what are the products i have to download and install? I am using OID for data source.Can please tell me installation process with OID for OIM.Thanks

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namburi varma says May 25, 2010

Hi Atul,

I want OIM in my application for single signon solution.what are the products i have to download and install? I am using OID for data source AND weblogic as the APPLICATION SERVER.Can please tell me installation process with OID and weblogic for OIM.what is the difference between OAM and OIM ? Thanks

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namburi varma says May 25, 2010

Hi Atul,

I mistakenly given OAM instead of OIM.I am using the Weblogic as application server.Thanks

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varma namburi says May 25, 2010

Hi Atul,

I have written OAM instead of OIM. Please suggest the solution by taking the before question into consideration. Thanks in advance.

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Atul Kumar says May 25, 2010

OAM is Oracle Access Manager and used for identity and access management product (Single Sign-On, Authentication/Authorization, User/Group Creation Managment)

OIM is Oracle Identity Manager and used for User provisioning (Creating a user in OIM and then provision them to various applications like ERP, database, AD, OID…)

If you are planning to implement Single Sign-On using OAM and wish to use OID as user/configuration and policy store then install all components as mentioned above (instead of AD use OID). Install HTTP Server infront of WebLogic and install webgate on HTTP. Configure OAM Authenticator and Identity Asserter in WebLogic (post coming soon..)

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FatCatMatt says July 1, 2010

Hi All.

Well I have installed OHS11g and installed identity server 10.1.4.3 and webpass 10.1.4.3 on linux-x64. Unfortunately when I try to login to http://host:port/identity/oblix it comes up with a page that just says OPEN, and nothing else. I have logged an Oracle SR, but still no resolution. Anyone had a similar problem?

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Atul Kumar says July 1, 2010

What is communication mode between webpass and identity server (simple , open or ssl) ?

Did you try re-starting Identity server and web server ?

Is there any error in $Identity_server/oblix/oblog.log

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FatCatMatt says July 1, 2010

Hi, the communication mode is OPEN.

Yes I have reinstalled both identity server and webpass. Oracle support initially recommended user be root to install, however their install notes conflict with this. I have added the user oidoam to the dba,adm,sys groups and tried the install again, however the issue is still present.

There are warning messages but the only ERROR message is:

Using NPTL Threading Library.
2010/07/01@10:23:55.640493 11095 11095 INIT ERROR 0x000003B6 ../oblistrwutil.cpp:192 “Could not read file” filename^/u01/oidoam/identity/oblix/data/common/binaryattrnames.xml.

Not sure this is an issue.

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Atul Kumar says July 1, 2010

what is version (exact 11.1.1.1 or 11.1.1.2 or 11.1.1.3) and bit (32 or 64) of OHS 11g, what is Linux version (4 ot 5) ?

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FatCatMatt says July 1, 2010

Host is as below:

[ooidoam@dndun006 logs]$ uname -a
Linux dndun006.pipelinetrust.com.au 2.6.18-164.0.0.0.1.el5 #1 SMP Thu Sep 3 00:21:28 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

OHS11g is 11.1.1.2, and 64 bit.

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Atul says July 1, 2010

@ FatCatMatt,
Did you manage to restart OHS (OHS 11g 64 bit failed to come up after webpass install in my case) ?

Webpass 10.1.4.3 is NOT certified with 64 bit of 11g OHS . It is certified with 32 bit of OHS 11g . Check OAM certification at http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/id_mgmt/coreid_acc/pdf/oracle_access_manager_certification_10.1.4_r3_matrix.xls Under sheet client certification.

Unfortunately you can’t install 32 bit OHS 11g on 64 bit Linux (I know this was possible in 10g OHS but not in 11g OHS).

Try installing 32 bit 10g OHS and then install webpass and try.

Just to confirm check OHS 11g log files, Do you know where log file for OHS 11g sit ? ($INSTANCE_HOME/diagnostics/OHS/ohs1/.. not 100% sure)

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Arjun Balla says October 7, 2010

We are trying to implement single signon solution
With Microsoft Active Directory (AD) and Apache 2.2 Webserver
May I know when will you post
Step by Step Oracle Access Manager (OAM) installation with Microsoft Active Directory (AD) and Oracle HTTP Server (OHS) coming soon ….

If there are any config changes different from Oracle HTTP Server (OHS) to Apache 2.2 Webserver please make a point

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Atul Kumar says October 8, 2010

@ Arjun,
Which OAM you are planning to use (OAM 10g or 11g) I’ll point you to respective documentation .

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Larry says October 26, 2010

Hi Atul,
I would like to set up Oracle Apps 12.1.1 to authenticate login id/password against Microsoft Active Directory. I don’t need SSO and I don’t need to sync information from Apps to AD. Is this possible and if so, what components would I need, OID, OIM, something else? Is there any documentation that you can point me to that will help me get this configured?
Thanks

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Atul Kumar says October 27, 2010

@ Larry,
OID is mandatory but you don’t need OIM that is sure.

For passwords you can leave them just in AD (no password in apps or OID) and for this you would need external authentication plugin in AD configured to use password in AD.

So use EBS to OID and OID to AD for user synchronization.

For login to apps, I am not sure if you can do this without SSO (either Oracle Access Manager or 10g OSSO) . Check with Oracle Support regarding this.

Check chapter 6 of Oracle Apps Security Guide at http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B53825_07/current/acrobat/121sasg.pdf

If Oracle says that SSO is mandatory then my preference for new SSO implementation would be Oracle Access Manager (10g as I don’t think OAM 11g is yet certified with EBS)

I’ll update you if I can find more information this.

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Larry says October 28, 2010

Atul,

Thanks for the information. From all of my reading, it looks like I have to use OIM. I don’t think my boss will think it is worth $140,000 for OIM just to authenticate to AD.

You have done a great job with your site. I really like the glossary information you include at the beginning of your posts.

Keep up the good work.

Thanks again,

Larry

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Ronald says January 30, 2011

Hi Atul,

Could you please guide me on how to configure policy manager in the cluster?. I think we cannot install policy manager on both servers in the cluster. If i install one one then access system console only on that node. How to failover this to other node?. could you please help with this?

Regards,
Ronald

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Mohankumar says May 25, 2011

Hi…
Atul

i Want to upgrade my OAM 10.1.4.0.1 to OAM 10.1.4.0.4..your previos comment you mentioned that why to install 10.1.4.0.1 directly you can install 10.1.4.0.3 but my task is to upgrade frm OAM 10.1.4.0.1 to OAM 10.1.4.0.4 so can u please provide the necessary doccument…if present

my o.s is solaris..
using microsoft ad 2003
and remaining all i.e..,identity server,webpass and etc.. are all of 10.1.4.0.1 and need to upgrade to 10.1.4.0.3

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Atul Kumar says May 25, 2011

@ Mohankumar,
Your comments are scattered across different posts with no links to previous comment (like above comment related to versions was asked earlier on different post and now this one here). This breaks continuity and confuses other readers, I am sorry to say that I’ll not repond to your queries if not asked properly in related post.

If you need answer to this or any other query please post comment in related post and also next query related to same question should be asked on same post. This will help other readers to understand and get help from issues similar to yours.

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Mohankumar says May 25, 2011

Hi…
Atul,

As in my previous comment i mentioned that i need to upgrade from 10.1.4.0.1 to 10.1.4.0.4..but i am sorry i need to upgrade from 10.1.4.0.1 to 10.1.4.0.3..and in the above comment i mentioned the details..so could you please provide the details…how to upgrade

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Srini says October 10, 2011

Hi Atul,
I want to deny access to a user based on an end date(OrclActiveEndDate) attribute in OID. I want to setup a policy in OAM to do that. I figured out that we cant use date checks or > or < in the policies to validate. What is the best solution for this

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Vijay Gadagoni says September 7, 2012

Hi Atul,

I just want to know few details about OAM. Our Oracle Applications version is 11.5.10.2, OS is Solaris sparc 64bit version 10 and planing to install OAM 10.1.4.3. For that First we have installed,

Database 11.2.0.3
Weblogic server 10.3.5
OID – 11.1.1.5
OHS 10.1.3.x (here we are confusing)
OAM component 10.1.4.3

First we installed OHS 11g and heard that that is supportable with Solaris 64bit. then contacted oracle and they informed to install OHS 10g. Now they are telling that OHS 10g is not supportable with webpass 10.1.4.3. We are in bit confusion and need your help on which version we need to install. Please advice.

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Atul Kumar says September 7, 2012

@ Vijay Gadagoni,
10g OAM is bit complicated, webpass in 10.1.4.3 is certified on 11g OHS but with 32 bit.

You can go install webpass on 10g or 11g OHS but it should be 32 bit OHS .

For all certified webservers for webpass check certification matrix at http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=oracle%20identity%20management%2010.1.4.3%20webpass%20certification%20matrix&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CDAQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oracle.com%2Ftechnetwork%2Fmiddleware%2Fdownloads%2Foracle-accessmgr-10gr3-certmatrix-132000.xls&ei=GmlKUL2XDsa_0QWS_4HoAg&usg=AFQjCNEmg3xQgbQpEdItzo-tOcgMR_xSDA

Look under sheet “Client Ceriticate”

We also provide consulting services and can install OAM 10g for you remotely but this will be paid service .

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Sourabh Gupta says September 29, 2012

Hi Atul,

I want to integrate OAM(10g) with EBS R12.1.3 for SSO.

Do I require the Identity Server Component of the OAM 10g. I think no. Please suggest. Since one of your blog says we can install We can install either of the component.

In that Case How I can proceed.

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Ashwini says November 7, 2016

Hi All,

Can anyone tell me what is the difference between OAM and sailpoint. And can we integrate both the products.
Regards,
Ashwini

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