Re-running Identity System of Oracle Access Manager.

Just in case if you have configured the OAM Identity System incorrectly or want to change it to different directory server, then here is the article that helps you.

The problem I faced is like this. I have installed OAM again Sun LDAP as user store. I have specified one user as OAM Administrator while setting up the Identity System. After that, I have  changed the uid of the user in the Sun LDAP and I am not able to access the Identity System Console tab of identity console. In addition, most of the tabs were repoting as No Sufficient Rights. It is inevitable that I have to reconfigure the Identity System for this.

First, we need to change few items of Directory Server and other files before running the Identity System setup.

  • Bring down the Web Server hosting the WebPass  and stop the Identity server.
  • Take back of files setup.xml, configInfo.xml and ois_server_config.xml present under the location Identity_Server_install_dir/identity/oblix/config .
  • Delete the files that you took backup just now.
  • Rename the file ois_server_config.xml.bak to ois_server_config.xml. The file ois_server_config.xml.bak will have basic configurations when the identity system is not configured.
  • Goto the Directory Server (in my case, Sun LDAP). Traverse to the location obpolicycontainerid=webresrcdb,obcontainerid=policies,o=oblix.
  • Delete the entries for identity server and webpass. You can identify these entries with the identity server id and webpass id that you entered while installing them.
  • Also delete the time stamp it will be of the form 20100608135719Z (for instance).
  • Traverse to the location obcontainerid=DBAgents,o=oblix and delete all the entries present in it.
  • Edit the setup.xml present in the location Identity_Server_install_dir/identity/oblix/config by changing the status parameter value from “done” to “incomplete”. Save the file.
  • Restart the Identity Server.
  • Start the Web server hosting the web pass.
  • Access the Identity System console and you will see button SetUp. Go ahead for pointing to new directory server or any other parameters as you wish.

References:

Oracle Documentation

About the Author Mahendra

I am engulfed in Oracle Identity & Access Management domain. I have expertise on providing the optimized solutions for user provisioning, web access management, Single Sign-On and federation capabilities etc., I am also well versed with complex integrations within Identity Management and other product domains. I have expertise on building demos and implementation experience on products Oracle Access Manager, Oracle Adaptive Access Manager, Oracle Entitlement Server, Oracle Virtual Directory, Oracle Internet Directory etc., Look @ my blog: http://talkidentity.blogspot.com

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